belonging
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
belong/bɪˈlɒŋ/
▶verb
- 1 (belong to) be the property of.
■ be the rightful possession of; be due to.
- 2 (belong to) be a member of.
■ (of a person) fit or be acceptable in a specified place or environment.
- 3 (of a thing) be rightly placed in or assigned to a specified position.
– derivatives
belonging noun,
belongingness noun.
belonging noun,
belongingness noun.
'belonging' also found in these Oxford entries:
aboriginal
- aestival
- Alexandrian
- alien
- amanuensis
- anachronism
- ancient
- antediluvian
- anthropoid
- antique
- apocryphal
- appurtenant
- archaic
- ascribe
- attribute
- bandit
- barbarian
- basal
- beatnik
- belong
- belted galloway
- Blood
- borderline
- borrow
- bugger
- bungalow
- bygone
- Caddoan
- Capuchin
- casual
- celestial
- Chinese
- chromatic
- Chukchi
- class
- classic
- cleric
- clubmoss
- coelenterate
- coliform
- collective
- collegiate
- combinatorics
- common
- commons
- connatural
- conspecific
- contemporary
- continental
- conventual
