1A bag, sack, or pouch made of paper, cloth, plastic, etc., used for holding or carrying things.
コンビニで買った物をビニール袋に入れてもらった。
I had the clerk put what I bought at the convenience store into a plastic bag.
引っ越しの荷物をダンボールと紙袋に分けて詰めた。
I packed my moving boxes, dividing things between cardboard boxes and paper bags.
母は手作りの布袋にお弁当を入れて持たせてくれた。
My mother packed my lunch in a handmade cloth bag for me to take.
空になった砂糖の袋を捨てた。
I threw away the empty sugar bag.
2The thin membrane that wraps each segment of a citrus fruit like a mandarin orange; often peeled away before eating.
このみかんは袋ごと食べても甘くておいしい。
This mandarin is sweet and tasty even if you eat it membrane and all.
祖父はいつもみかんの袋を丁寧にむいてから食べる。
My grandfather always carefully peels off the membrane before eating a mandarin.
3A dead end; a road or place with no through passage, like a cul-de-sac.
その路地は先が袋になっていて車は通り抜けられない。
That alley is a dead end, so cars can't pass through.
犯人は袋になった裏道に逃げ込んで捕まった。
The culprit fled into a dead-end back alley and was caught.
4A plot of land nearly encircled by a river or other body of water, forming a pouch-like shape.
川に囲まれた袋のような土地に古い水車小屋が残っている。
An old watermill still stands on the pouch-shaped plot of land surrounded by the river.