Definition of "belonging" []

• A personal item that one owns; a possession. Often used in the plural. (noun)
• Acceptance as a natural member or part: a sense of belonging. (noun)

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• "There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition."
• "This term belonging properly to those things which we can observe in the ordinary course of things, by a natural decay, to come to an end in"
• "ELISION, the omission or crowding out of unstressed words or unaccented syllables to make the metre smoother; a term belonging to classical prosody and inappropriate in English prosody except where syllable-counting verse is concerned."