BELONGINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does belongings mean? 

• BELONGINGS (noun)
  The noun BELONGINGS has 1 sense:

1. something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone

  Familiarity information: BELONGINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELONGINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

belongings; holding; property

Context example:

he is a man of property

Hypernyms ("belongings" is a kind of...):

possession (anything owned or possessed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "belongings"):

salvage (property or goods saved from damage or destruction)

trust (something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary))

stockholding; stockholdings (a specific number of stocks or shares owned)

heirloom ((law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance)

estate (everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities)

wealth (property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value)

public property (property owned by a government)

trade-in (an item of property that is given in part payment for a new one)

lease; letting; rental (property that is leased or rented out or let)

church property; spirituality; spiritualty (property or income owned by a church)

shareholding (a holding in the form of shares of corporations)

material possession; tangible possession (property or belongings that are tangible)

landholding (a holding in the form of land)

commonage (property held in common)

immovable; real estate; real property; realty (property consisting of houses and land)

things (any movable possession (especially articles of clothing))

personal estate; personal property; personalty; private property (movable property (as distinguished from real estate))

community property (property and income belonging jointly to a married couple)

intellectual property (intangible property that is the result of creativity (such as patents or trademarks or copyrights))

hereditament (any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited)

ratables; rateables (property that provides tax income for local governments)

worldly belongings; worldly goods; worldly possessions (all the property that someone possesses)

Derivation:

belong (be owned by; be in the possession of)

 Context examples 

But in examining his belongings I was fortunate enough to discover not only the method of the crime, but even its motives.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mercury will retrograde in your travel sector, so be sure to double-check you have all your belongings before leaving a plane, train, or taxi, and try not to book connecting flights.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The hunters had packed their belongings with similar haste.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Kind-hearted citizens caught the dogs and gathered up the scattered belongings.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We soldered up the leaden coffin, screwed on the coffin-lid, and gathering up our belongings, came away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Close contact or sharing personal belongings, such as hats or hairbrushes, puts people at risk.

(Head Lice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

And in her zeal, when she had finished with her own, she attacked the belongings of her men and went through them like a tornado.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There are many belongings that he must have somewhere; why not in this place so central, so quiet, where he come and go by the front or the back at all hour, when in the very vast of the traffic there is none to notice.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)