BELONGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does belonging mean? 

• BELONGING (noun)
  The noun BELONGING has 1 sense:

1. happiness felt in a secure relationship

  Familiarity information: BELONGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELONGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Happiness felt in a secure relationship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

with his classmates he felt a sense of belonging

Hypernyms ("belonging" is a kind of...):

happiness (emotions experienced when in a state of well-being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "belonging"):

comfortableness (a feeling of being at ease in a relationship)

closeness; intimacy (a feeling of being intimate and belonging together)

 Context examples 

The tranquillity and peace belonging, of old, to that quiet ground in my memory, pervaded it again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A benzothiadiazine sulfonamide derivative belonging to the class of the thiazide diuretics.

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Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite to its master's yard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He heard hundreds of technical words that were new to him, belonging to fields of thought that his meagre reading had never touched upon.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There is no doubt about the stick belonging to our client. He admits it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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(Benzthiazide, NCI Thesaurus)

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A fluoropyrimidine carbamate belonging to the class of antineoplastic agents called antimetabolites.

(Capecitabine, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt form of buformin, an agent belonging to the biguanide class of antidiabetics with antihyperglycemic activity.

(Buformin Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

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(Buformin, NCI Thesaurus)