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belonging

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ/
(General American)IPA^(key): /bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ/
(cot–caught merger)IPA^(key): /bɪˈlɑŋɪŋ/
Audio(General American): (file)
Hyphenation:be‧long‧ing
Rhymes:-ɒŋɪŋ

Etymology 1

Frombelong +‎-ing.

Noun

belonging (countable anduncountable,pluralbelongings)

(uncountable) The feeling that one belongs.
I have a feeling ofbelonging in London.
A need forbelonging seems fundamental to humans.
(countable, chiefly in theplural) Something physical that is owned.
Synonyms:possession,thing
Make sure you take all yourbelongings when you leave.
- c.1603–1604 (date written),William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i]:
  […] Thyself and thybelongings
  Are not thine own so proper as to waste
  Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
- 1939 April 14,John Steinbeck, chapter 9, inThe Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.:The Viking Press,→OCLC,page88:
  In the little houses the tenant people sifted theirbelongings and thebelongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.
- 1966,Truman Capote,In Cold Blood‎^[1], New York: Modern Library, published1992,Part I, p. 22:
  Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valuedbelonging, a gold watch[…]
(plural only, colloquial, dated)Family;relations;household.
- 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym;William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter XXXIII, inThe Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:Bradbury and Evans, […],→OCLC,page322:
  When Lady Kew saidSic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’sbelongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.
- 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, inAn Outcast of the Islands, London:T. Fisher Unwin […],→OCLC, part II,page121:
  As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s femalebelongings.

Derived terms

Translations

action of the verbbelong

Azerbaijani:mənsubiyyət
Bulgarian:принадлежност (bg) f(prinadležnost)
French:appartenance (fr) f
German:Zugehörigkeit (de) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål:tilhørighet
Portuguese:pertencimento m
Russian:принадле́жность (ru) f(prinadléžnostʹ)
Spanish:pertenencia (es) f
Swedish:tillhörighet (sv) c

something physical that is owned

Bulgarian:вещ (bg) f(vešt)
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian:hindru class7/8
French:affaire (fr) f,possession (fr) f,bien (fr) m
Galician:pertenza f
Georgian:საკუთრება(saḳutreba),კუთვნილი ნივთები(ḳutvnili nivtebi)
German:Eigentum (de) n,Habseligkeit (de) f,Besitz (de) m,Habe (de) f,Gut (de) n,Hab und Gut (de) n,Sache (de) f
Irish:gustal m
Portuguese:pertence (pt) m
Russian:со́бственность (ru) f(sóbstvennostʹ)
Spanish:pertenencias (es) f pl ;(colloquial or jocular usages)cachachá m(Venezuela),chivas (es) m pl(Mexico),macundales (es) m pl(Venezuela),maritates(Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua),efectos personales m pl,enseres (es) m pl,artículos personales m pl,bártulos (es) m pl
Swedish:tillhörighet (sv) c,ägodel (sv)
Tocharian B:waipecce

Etymology 2

FromMiddle Englishbelonginge,belanging,belangand, equivalent tobelong +‎-ing.

Verb

belonging

present participle andgerund ofbelong

Anagrams

englobing

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