belongings

1. 1.

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

   “that hat is my property”

   “he is a man of property”

   Synonymspropertyholding

   Broaderpossession

   Narrowertangible possessionworldly possessionsratableshereditamentintellectual propertycommunity propertypersonal propertythingsreal propertycommonage

Other forms of belongings

plural

belongingses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about belongings

What does belongings mean?

belongings means "something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone".

How many syllables are in belongings?

belongings has 3 syllables: be-lon-gings. The stress falls on "lon". In IPA it is /bɪˈlɔŋɪŋz/.

What is another word for belongings?

Close synonyms include property, holding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is belongings a common word?

belongings is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.