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Definition: Belongings |
BelongingsNoun1. Something owned; any tangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property";. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "belongings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: BelongingsSynonyms: holding (n), material possession (n), property (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Property | Assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth; money; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Belongings |
| English words defined with "belongings": abstract ♦ baggage ♦ cabbage ♦ duffel, duffel bag, duffle, duffle bag ♦ fieri facias, filch ♦ go ♦ hook ♦ lift, luggage ♦ nobble ♦ pilfer, pinch, purloin ♦ rifle ♦ snarf, sneak, swipe ♦ worldly belongings. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "belongings": Hogs ♦ Orchard ♦ PASSENGER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE, Petticoat, Poor-house ♦ severalty. (references) |
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Screenplays | They trundled their belongings into the city. (Schindler's List; writing credit: Steven Zaillian) In exchange for your home and all your belongings, the Leader of this way out and wrong religion, the Leader claims he'll take believeres to the planet, Blisstonia. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Personal Belongings (1996) Lost Belongings (1987) | |
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 | German displaced persons, carrying their few belongings, crowd behind a rope and double strand of barbed wire as they wait in Berlin's Anhalter Station to leave the German capital.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Earthquake victims in Tehran, Iran, praying to Allah for protection as they camp with their belongings in the open air northwest of Tehran.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Explorer's tent and belongings anchored securely so they won't be blown away.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Belongings of migrant family packed in and around car near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Muskogee County.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Flytrap and household belongings of Indian agricultural worker. McIntosh County, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Moving some belongings at the Zahler farm in the Pine Camp expansion area near Sterlingville, New York. The family is moving into one of the farms of the New York Defense Relocation Corps.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A truck on the road in Pine camp expansion area moving out a family's belongings. New York.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Furniture and belongings of construction workers. Starke, Florida.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Places to live being very scarce, miners must sometimes wait on main country roads for help from others with all their belongings. No job, no home. Mohegan, West Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | President Warren G. Harding, residence in Marion, Ohio. Mrs. Harding's personal belongings.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Plutarch | We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. |
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Health | Anyone who comes in close contact with someone who already has head lice, contaminated clothing, and other belongings. (references) | |
Lice are most commonly spread directly by head-to-head contact and indirectly though contaminated clothing or belongings. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Tanzania | The Government arrested, detained, and forcibly expelled 80 Rwandan and 580 Burundians in 2000. Many of these refugees reportedly were denied the opportunity to collect their belongings or contact their families prior to being expelled. (references) |
Economic History | Mauritius | The main incentives provided under this scheme include a 10-year tax holiday and a 15% corporate tax thereafter, tax-free dividends, and duty-free imports of office furniture, equipment and personal belongings of expatriate employees and duty-free import of a maximum of two cars for expatriate staff. (references) |
Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | His belongings were returned and he was released. (references) |
Trade | Armenia | Personal belongings are also imported duty free. (references) |
Armenia | Persons arriving in Armenia for permanent residence can import their belongings duty free. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | This includes the protection of intellectual property rights, assets and investments, and corporate and personal belongings against abuse. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | Travelers should guard against theft of personal belongings on all forms of public transportation. (references) |
China | Notebook computers, cameras, portable printers, VCRs can be brought into China as personal belongings. (references) | |
Poland | Visitors are advised to pay particularly close attention to their belongings while in airports and railway stations, as well as on public transportation. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SEVERALTY, n. Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.e., lands held individually, not in joint ownership. Certain tribes of Indians are believed now to be sufficiently civilized to have in severalty the lands that they have hitherto held as tribal organizations, and could not sell to the Whites for waxen beads and potato whiskey. Lo! the poor Indian whose unsuited mind Saw death before, hell and the grave behind; Whom thrifty settler ne'er besought to stay -- His small belongings their appointed prey; Whom Dispossession, with alluring wile, Persuaded elsewhere every little while! His fire unquenched and his undying worm By "land in severalty" (charming term!) Are cooled and killed, respectively, at last, And he to his new holding anchored fast! |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Belongings" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Belongings" is used about 361 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 361 | 14,936 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "belongings": personal belongings ♦ worldly belongings. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "belongings"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | plaçkë (chattel, clobber, cloth, loot, plunder, quarry, spoil, stuff, swag, things, trap), gjera personale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ممتلكات (asset, dominions, estate, fencing, gear, holding, possession, possessions, property, substance), ملحقات (outbuilding), متاع (effects, goods, wares), توابع (appurtenances), أمتعة (baggage, gear, kit, luggage, plunder, possessions, stuff), أسرة (family, house, name, people, stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лични вещи (paraphernalia, personal effects, traps), багаж (baggage, goods, impedimenta, impediments, luggage, things, traps), близки (kith and kin, people), принадлежности (accessories, adjuncts, appendages, appointments, clobber, equipage, etceteras, findings, fittings, fixings, habiliment, materials, paraphernalia, requisites, tackle, things, trimming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 財物 (property), 财产 (ASSET, Assets, Possession), 所有物 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zavazadla (baggage, impedimenta, luggage), vìci (things), majetek (estate, holding, means, possession, property, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tavarat (effects, goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | possessions, affaires. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | habseligkeiten (effects, possessions). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπάρχοντα (duds, effects). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטלטלין (chattels, duds, movable property), כבו"" (baggage, burden, possessions). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tulajdon (before my eyes, before my very eyes, holding, own, ownership, peculiar, properties, property, propriety), rokonság (affinity, cousinhood, kin, kindred, kinsfolk, kinship, kith and kin, relationship), holmi (doings, effects, gear, impediments, paraphernalia, personal effects, plunder, traps, whatnot), cókmók (bag and baggage, clobber, crap, doings, duds, goods and chattels, kit, paraphernalia, traps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | barang-barang (commodities, matter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | roba (goods, paraphernalia, robe, stuff, things), effetti personali (personal effects, personal equipment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 付属物 (accessory, appendage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふぞくぶつ (accessory, appendage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 용'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cowryn (chattel, chattels, effects, riches). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elongingsbay bens (assets, estate, goods, moneybag, property, resources, riches), possessão (dependence, dependency, possession, property), pertences (paraphrase, pertinent, things), parentes (folk dance, kin, kindred, kinsfolk), acessórios (accessories, dependence, dependency, fittings, furnishings, garniture, propulsion). (various references) bunuri (all, assets, effect, estate, good, goods, having, hereditament, holding, stuff), bun (affectionate, applicable, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), rude (connection, folk, kin, kindred, kinsfolk, own, people), neamuri (kindred, kinsfolk), lucru (act, activity, article, business, cert, deed, employment, happening, implement, job, labor, labour, matter, object, occurrence, operation, predecessor, service, situation, thing, things, traps, work, working), ceea ce aparţine cuiva (own), catrafuse (trap, traps, truck), calabalâc (crowd, things, trap, traps), avere (all, assets, effect, estate, fortune, gold, goods, having, means, opulence, patrimony, possession, property, substance, wealth), acareturi (chattels, dependencies, implements, outhouses). (various references) принадлежности (accessories, adjuncts, gear, material, materials, outfit, paraphernalia, tackle), пожитки (things). (various references) svojina (own, ownership, property), stvari (stuff, things), predmeti lične svojine. (various references) bienes (assets, estate, goods, havings, holding, medical goods, possessions, property), posesiones (possessions), pertenencias (belonging), efectos personales (personal effects), cosas (business, gear, stuff, tackle, things). (various references) tillhörigheter (clobber, duds, goods and chattels). (various references) pılı pırtı (candle-end, gear, gimcrackery, gimcracks, kit, traps, trinkets, truck), kişisel eşyalar (duds, effects, goods and chattels, personal belongings), kişisel eşya (goods and chattels), eşya (appointments, article, bulk, commodity, furniture, gear, goods, property, stuff, thing, traps, ware), özel eşya (peculiar, personalty). (various references) goю-golaс (property), goю (property, things), emlдk (property). (various references) родичі (affinity), частини, приладдя (accessories, implement, outfit, tackle, utensil), прибудови, пожитки (chattel, swag). (various references) meddiannau (assets), eiddo (assets, hers, his, mine, ours, possessions, property, theirs, thine, yours). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Belongings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: belongin, Bloggins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "belongings" (pronounced bulô"ngingz) |
| 6 | -l ô" ng i ng z | longings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: belonging, englobing. | |
-2 letters: longeing, longings. | |
-3 letters: belongs, benison, biogens, boggles, bonging, eloigns, ginseng, globing, globins, goblins, gosling, ignoble, leggins, legions, legongs, lensing, lingoes, longies, longing, niggles, noggins, obliges, sniggle. | |
-4 letters: begins, beings, belong, benign, bennis, bilges, binges, bingos, biogen, boggle, bogies, bogles, boning, bonnes, bonnie, eloign, eloins, ensign, gibson, globes, globin, gobies, goblin, goings. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-o-s" | |
+2 letters: obligingness. | |
+3 letters: belongingness. | |
+4 letters: obligingnesses. | |
+5 letters: belongingnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 6C 6F 6E 67 69 6E 67 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-.. --- -. --. .. -. --. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101100 01101111 01101110 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e l o n g i n g s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 006C 006F 006E 0067 0069 006E 0067 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36717881807375807385 |
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