package

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: pack=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

package, n. 

•  Act or process of packing.  [1913 Webster]
•  A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.  [1913 Webster]
•  A charge made for packing goods.  [1913 Webster]
•  A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

package, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a bundle of things packed. b a parcel, box, etc., in which things are packed.
2 (in full package deal) a set of proposals or items offered or agreed to as a whole.
3 Computing a piece of software suitable for various applications rather than one which is custom-built.
4 colloq. = package holiday.
--v.tr. make up into or enclose in a package.

Idiom

package holiday (or tour etc.) a holiday or tour etc. with all arrangements made at an inclusive price.

Derivative

packager n.

Etymology

PACK(1) + -AGE

THESAURUS

package

A to Z, A to izzard, Anschluss, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, agreement, all, all and sundry, alliance, alpha and omega, amalgamation, assemblage, assimilation, association, bag, bale, barrel, basket, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, bind up, bindle, blend, blending, bolt, bottle, bottling, bouquet, box, box up, boxing, budget, bundle, bundle up, cabal, can, canning, capsule, cartel, carton, case, cask, centralization, coalescence, coalition, combination, combine, combo, complement, composition, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, container, containerize, coupled, crate, crating, deck, do up, each and every, ecumenism, embodiment, embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, encasement, enclose, encompassment, encyst, enfold, enosis, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, everything, fagot, fardel, fasces, fascine, federalization, federation, fusion, hamper, hookup, include, inclusion, incorporate, incorporation, integration, invest, jar, junction, junta, lap, league, length and breadth, marriage, meld, melding, merger, nosegay, one and all, pack, package deal, packaging, packet, packing, parcel, posy, pot, quiver, roll, roll up, rouleau, sack, set, sheaf, sheathe, shroud, smother, solidification, surround, swaddle, swathe, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tank, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot, the whole, the whole range, tie up, tie-up, tin, tinning, truss, truss up, unification, union, unit, unite, wedding, wrap, wrap about, wrap up

ROGET THESAURUS

package

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.