What does the word belonging mean?

Usage examples for belonging

  1. If I had been caught in the uniform, belonging as I do to the embassy, there would have been a terrible fuss. – Paul Patoff by F. Marion Crawford
  2. She actually does not feel a pride in belonging to a good old family. – In Luck at Last by Walter Besant
  3. Belonging to the state. – Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by O. J. Stevenson