Find the word definition

Crossword clues for belongings

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
belongings
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pack your things/belongings
▪ Kelly packed her things before breakfast.
sb’s few belongings/friends etc
▪ I gathered together my few possessions.
sb’s personal possessions/belongings/property
▪ All personal belongings should be clearly marked with the owner’s name.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
personal
▪ Leaving his personal belongings in the room he walks down to enjoy a good breakfast before continuing his journey.
▪ But we also brought food, stones found along the way, wild flowers, and objects from our personal belongings.
▪ Many of her clothes and personal belongings had been stolen.
▪ He told Kasturbal how to distribute his few personal belongings that lay around the cot.
▪ You don't wait to pick up personal belongings, you just get the hell out.
▪ They also leave favorite personal belongings.
▪ He said cash and personal belongings should be hidden away and staff rooms locked to maximise security.
▪ To go through all her husband's personal belongings sent back from the hospital where he died.
■ VERB
collect
▪ He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings.
▪ When they went back to their desks to collect their belongings, they found younger replacement workers already in their seats.
▪ Then he collected his belongings from the interview room and joined Rain on the landing.
gather
▪ The first of the sirens sounded distantly and she ran to the kitchen, gathering up her belongings with hands that shook.
▪ He gathered his belongings and left for good.
▪ The two women stood, gathered up their belongings, stepped down on to the platform.
▪ She gathers up a few belongings and runs away.
leave
▪ He had left some of his belongings behind, which would mean a return journey to go and collect them.
▪ Neither will have quit jobs, left families or lugged belongings across the country.
▪ We left our belongings hanging on the handlebars and skirted the hedgerow for blackberries.
▪ They also leave favorite personal belongings.
pack
▪ Adam packed his few belongings, then went next door and did the same for Billie.
▪ I walked down the corridors of Hard Class to my compartment, to pack my belongings.
▪ Even the tinkers camped nearby were packing up their few belongings and preparing to leave.
▪ Outsiders go home, they yelled at us over and over, until the day the missionaries started to pack their belongings.
▪ He packed his belongings, made his goodbyes, and parted from his hosts.
▪ So they packed their few belongings and rushed to southeast Washington.
▪ As she set down her cup, startling the sparrows, she thought she might even pack his belongings.
▪ Instead of trying to sort it out, he waits until I leave the house, then packs all his belongings and leaves.
put
▪ He put Kit's belongings on his bedroll and rolled everything up.
▪ He put his belongings into a musty old cupboard beside his bed.
▪ There was nowhere for us to put our belongings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It doesn't cost much to insure your personal belongings.
▪ Soldiers searched through people's personal belongings.
▪ They packed all their belongings into the car and left the city that night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adam packed his few belongings, then went next door and did the same for Billie.
▪ Dad went indoors and brought out her belongings and placed them as she directed.
▪ He carried his few belongings balanced on his head.
▪ Her advice begins with an inventory of belongings, surroundings, problem areas and priorities.
▪ His eyes followed his teenage daughter as she walked around his bedroom, pocketing his belongings.
▪ It's a nuisance having to abandon my belongings, though.
▪ Leaving his personal belongings in the room he walks down to enjoy a good breakfast before continuing his journey.
▪ With no definitive ruling, however, he was quickly sent back to prison without his belongings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
belongings

"goods, effects, possessions," 1817, from verbal noun from belong.\n

Wiktionary
belongings

n. (plural of belonging nodot=1 English); possessions or personal items.

WordNet
belongings

n. something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property"; [syn: property, holding, material possession]

Usage examples of "belongings".

Zaira spent the next morning in gathering together her belongings, now laughing and now weeping, and every time that she left her packing to give me a kiss I could not resist weeping myself.

Three days after the departure of Tiretta, I took him what small belongings he had, and Madame seemed very glad to see me.

The next morning I arranged for the redemption of her effects, which cost me sixty crowns of Saxony, and in the afternoon the poor woman saw herself once more in possession of her belongings, which she had thought never to see again.

Leonilda gave the key to the page, a pretty boy, and told him to see that all my belongings were carefully taken to the castle.

I dressed hastily, and after placing all my belongings in a portmanteau I followed him.

Directly after Adele, simply but neatly dressed, came down and wished me good day, telling me that her father was going to put a small trunk containing their belongings at the back of the carriage.

I had my portmanteau and all my belongings taken into my room, and having washed and put on my dressing-gown I sat down to write, to whom I did not know, for I was quite wrong in my contention.

I asked them to come in, and Sara told me that the landlady would not let their belongings out of the house before her father paid a debt of forty guineas, although a city merchant had assured her it should be settled in a week.

As soon as my companion had reached the other side I threw him my belongings, with the exception of the ropes, which I left behind, and placing a third stool on the two others, I climbed up, and got through as far as my middle, though with much difficulty, owing to the extreme narrowness of the hole.

I was in my servant's hands, my face turned away towards the fire, so that I could not see Esther, but only divert myself with the idea that she was inspecting my belongings, when all at once she presented herself with a melancholy air, holding Mamon's fatal letter in her hand.

Two hours after, a servant of the marquis's came to fetch her belongings, and I was thus left alone and full of grief till the marquis came and asked me to give him supper, advising that Veronique should be asked in to keep us company.

After a fortnight I left Schwetzingen, leaving some of my belongings under the care of Veraci the poet, telling him I would call for them some day.

They went back to fetch the rest of my belongings, and for two hours I saw no one, although the door of my cell remained open.

I then gave orders to my Spaniard to go and fetch the belongings which were absolutely necessary to me.

I then returned to the "Treize Cantons" and put his belongings into a trunk, and had them transported to his new abode.