belonging
/bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ/ noun B2- The feeling that one belongs. · I have a feeling of belonging in London.· A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
- Something physical that is owned. · Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.
- Family; relations; household.
Plural belongings
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Around the schooner lay a number of small fishing-boats belonging to the fishermen of the neighboring village, like humble subjects awaiting orders from their queen.
The servants passed gayly along the fine courtyard; some, belonging to the kitchens, gliding down the stairs, restored but the previous day, as if they had always inhabited the house; others filling the coach-houses, where the equipages, encased and numbered, appeared to have been installed for the last fifty years; and in the stables the horses replied with neighs to the grooms, who spoke to them with much more respect than many servants pay their masters.
I am all that is left to her belonging to my poor Renée, whom you have so soon forgotten, sir.”
The two coffins were placed on trestles previously prepared for their reception in the right-hand crypt belonging to the Saint-Méran family.
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