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belongings
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Belongings
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be·long·ing
/
bɪˈlɔŋ
ɪŋ, -ˈlɒŋ-
/
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[
bih-
lawng
-ing, -
long
-
]
Show IPA
noun
1.
something that
belongs
.
2.
belongings,
possessions; goods; personal effects.
Origin:
1595–1605;
belong
+
-ing
1
Related forms
un·be·long·ing,
adjective
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belonging
(bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ)
—
n
secure relationship; affinity (esp in the phrase
a sense of belonging
)
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belongings
(bɪˈlɒŋɪŋz)
—
pl n
(
sometimes singular
) the things that a person owns or has with him; possessions; effects
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History
belongings
"goods, effects, possessions," 1817, from
belong
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
During the exam all personal
belongings
must placed in a designated storage
area in the testing room.
The bullock carried their personal
belongings
and the tools with which they
could repair a break.
We went to his old daycare long enough to collect his personal
belongings
.
We treat our
belongings
as personal and do not welcome any invasion of privacy.
The soldiers turned their attention to her personal
belongings
.
Each junior officer was allowed one trunk of personal
belongings
that was carried in a baggage wagon.
If you leave any personal
belongings
in the rental unit, the landlord can keep them until you pay storage costs.
Similarly, it is not impermissible to have personal
belongings
.
But do take appropriate precautions to keep your personal
belongings
safe, as pickpockets are becoming more prevalent.
For the trenches, dugouts and tunnels-many containing human remains and personal
belongings
-are ethical minefields too.
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"I am packing my
belongings
in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I am going from my valley. But this time I shall never return. I am leaving behind me my 50 years of memory—memory. Strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago of men and women long since dead. Yet who shall say what is real and what is not. Can I believe this all gone when their voices are still a glory in my ears. No. And I will stand to say no and no again, for they remain within my mind. There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can go close my eyes on my valley as it is today and it is gone. And I see it as it was when I was a boy—green it was and possessed of the plenty of the earth. In all Wales there was none so beautiful."
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