Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Belonging

Belonging , noun

[Commonly in the pl.]

1.
That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects.
Thyself and thy belongings. — Shakespeare
2.
That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.
3.
Family; relations; household. [Colloquial]
Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. — Thackeray