Usually means: Sense of acceptance and connection.
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  1. belonging: Merriam-Webster
  2. belonging: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. belonging: Collins English Dictionary
  4. belonging: Vocabulary.com
  5. Belonging, belonging: Wordnik
  6. belonging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. belonging: Wiktionary
  8. belonging: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. belonging: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. belonging: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Belonging, belonging: Dictionary.com
  12. belonging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Belonging (Angel), Belonging (Dollhouse), Belonging (TV series), Belonging (album), Belonging (film), Belonging: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Belonging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. belonging: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. belonging: Rhymezone
  17. Belonging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. belonging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. belonging: FreeDictionary.org
  20. belonging: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. belonging: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. belonging: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belonging: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belonging: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (belonging)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The feeling that one belongs.
▸ noun:  (countable, chiefly in the plural) Something physical that is owned.
▸ noun:  (plural only, colloquial, dated) Family; relations; household.

Similar:
consist, dwell, lie, go, lie in, unbelonging, connected, inhabit, representing, possess, more...

Opposite:
alienation, exclusion, isolation, rejection, estrangement

Types:
family, community, friendship, club, organization, religion, citizenship, ownership, more...

Phrases:
belonging to, Multiple religious belonging, belonging to someone, not belonging, sense of belonging, more...

Adjectives:
national, individual, social, right, cultural, ethnic, religious, personal, latter, few, common

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Similar:
consist, dwell, lie, go, lie in, unbelonging, connected, inhabit, representing, possess, more...

Opposite:
alienation, exclusion, isolation, rejection, estrangement

Types:
family, community, friendship, club, organization, religion, citizenship, ownership, more...

Phrases:
belonging to, Multiple religious belonging, belonging to someone, not belonging, sense of belonging, belonging to the native american tribe, belonging to us, feeling of belonging, a sense of belonging, more...

Adjectives:
national, individual, social, right, cultural, ethnic, religious, personal, latter, few, common

Colors:
    blue,     green,     teal,     turquoise,     lavender, more...



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