different between belonging vs convenience

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??l????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??l????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Hyphenation: be?long?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English belonginge, belanging, belangand, equivalent to belong +? -ing.

Verb

belonging

1. present participle of belong

Etymology 2

From belong +? -ing.

Noun

belonging (countable and uncountable, plural belongings)

1. (uncountable) The feeling that one belongs.

   I have a feeling of belonging in London.

   A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.

2. (countable, chiefly in the plural) Something physical that is owned.

   Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     […] Thyself and thy belongings

     Are not thine own so proper as to waste

     Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Compass, 1958, Chapter 9, p. 117,^[2]

     In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.

   • 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, 1992, Part I, p. 22,^[3]

     Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch […]

3. (plural only, colloquial, dated) family; relations; household.
   • 1854, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, London: Bradbury & Evans, Chapter 33, p. 322,^[4]

     When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.

   • 1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, Part II, Chapter Three,^[5]

     As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.

Synonyms

• (something physical that is owned): possession, thing

Translations

Anagrams

• englobing

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin convenientia, from conveniens (“suitable”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”). Doublet of convenance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?vi?n??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?vinj?ns/
• Hyphenation: con?ve?nience

Noun

convenience (countable and uncountable, plural conveniences)

1. The quality of being convenient.

   Synonym: amenity
2. Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
3. A convenient time.

4. (chiefly Britain) Ellipsis of public convenience: a public lavatory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

convenience (third-person singular simple present conveniences, present participle conveniencing, simple past and past participle convenienced)

1. To make convenient

   These are equally viable times and I propose we alternate between the two times in order to convenience as many people as possible.

Further reading

• convenience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• convenience at OneLook Dictionary Search