belonging

1. (uncountable) The feeling that one belongs.Examples: "I have a feeling of belonging in London."; "A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans."uncountable

2. (countable, chiefly in the plural) Something physical that is owned.Examples: "Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave."; "[…] Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee."; "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."Synonyms: possession, thingcountablein-plural

3. (plural only, colloquial, dated) Family; relations; household.Examples: "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."; "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."colloquialcountabledatedpluralplural-onlyuncountable