Frombelong -ing
belonging (countable anduncountable plural belongings
( uncountable ) I have a feeling ofbelonging in London.
A need forbelonging seems fundamental to humans.
( countable , chiefly in theplural ) Synonyms: possession thing Make sure you take all yourbelongings when you leave.
c. 1603–1604 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] :[ …] belongings
1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 9, inThe Grapes of Wrath The Viking Press ,→OCLC 1967 ,→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] 1992 ,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 William Makepeace Thackeray ], chapter XXXIII, inThe Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family (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 An Outcast of the Islands T. Fisher Unwin [ … ] →OCLC 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 .
something physical that is owned
Bulgarian:вещ (bg) f ( vešt ) French:affaire (fr) f possession (fr) f bien (fr) m Galician:pertenza f Georgian:საკუთრება ( saḳutreba ) ,კუთვნილი ნივთები ( ḳutvnili nivtebi ) German:Sache (de) f Eigentum (de) n Irish:gustal m Ngazidja Comorian:hindru class7/ 8 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
FromMiddle English belonginge belanging belangand belong -ing
belonging
present participle andgerund ofbelong 
