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From belong +‎ -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)#BELONGING.

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belonging (countable and uncountable, plural belongings)Category:English lemmas#BELONGING Category:English nouns#BELONGING Category:English uncountable nouns#BELONGING Category:English countable nouns#BELONGING Category:English countable nouns#BELONGING Category:English entries with incorrect language header#BELONGING Category:Pages with entries#BELONGING Category:Pages with 1 entry#BELONGING

(uncountable Category:English uncountable nouns#BELONGING) The feeling that one belongs.
I have a feeling of belonging in London.Category:English terms with usage examples#BELONGING

A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.Category:English terms with usage examples#BELONGING
(countable Category:English countable nouns#BELONGING, chiefly in the plural) Something physical that is owned.
Synonyms: possession, thing

Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.Category:English terms with usage examples#BELONGING
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  […] Thyself and thy belongings
  Are not thine own so proper as to waste
  Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
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- 1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 9, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 88:
  In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.
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- 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood‎, New York: Modern Library, published 1992, Part I, p. 22:
  Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch […]
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(plural onlyCategory:English pluralia tantum#BELONGING, colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#BELONGING, dated Category:English dated terms#BELONGING) Family; relations; household.
- 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter XXXIII, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 322:
  When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.
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- 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part II, page 121:
  As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.
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