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friendship
English
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Etymology
From Middle English frendshipe, from Old English fr?onds?ipe, from Proto-West Germanic *friundskapi. Equivalent to friend +? -ship.
Pronunciation
- enPR: fr?nd'sh?p, IPA(key): /?f??nd??p/
Noun
friendship (countable and uncountable, plural friendships)
- (uncountable) The condition of being friends.
- (countable) A friendly relationship, or a relationship as friends.
- (uncountable) Good will.
Synonyms
- (friendly relationship): entente cordiale
Antonyms
- enemyship
- foeship
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- friending
- mateship
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belonging
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
- present participle of belong
Etymology 2
From belong +? -ing.
Noun
belonging (countable and uncountable, plural belongings)
- (uncountable) The feeling that one belongs.
- I have a feeling of belonging in London.
- A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
- (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 […]
- (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.
- 1854, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, London: Bradbury & Evans, Chapter 33, p. 322,[4]
Synonyms
- (something physical that is owned): possession, thing
Translations
Anagrams
- englobing
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