belongings
belongings is the plural of belonging.
Meaning of belonging
Noun
belonging (countable and uncountable, plural belongings)
- The feeling that one belongs.
- I have a feeling of belonging in London.
- Something physical that is owned.
- Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.
- Synonyms:
- possession, thing
- Family; relations; household.
- 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.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...
Synonyms of belongings
Questions about belongings
- What is belongings the plural of?
- Belongings is the plural of belonging.
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