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Belong   /bɪlˈɔŋ/   Listen
Belong

verb
(past & past part. belonged; pres. part. belonging)
1.
Be owned by; be in the possession of.
2.
Be suitable or acceptable.
3.
Be in the right place or situation.  Synonym: go.  "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government" , "Where do these books go?"
4.
Be rightly classified in a class or category.
5.
Be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place).
6.
Be a part or adjunct.  Synonym: belong to.  "These pages don't belong"



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"Belong" Quotes from Famous Books



... is admirable in this respect, since it is impossible for any of its Readers, whatever Nation, Country or People he may belong to, not to be related to the Persons who are the principal Actors in it; but what is still infinitely more to its Advantage, the principal Actors in this Poem are not only our Progenitors, but our Representatives. We have ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... this morning to converse about trying to get him on the pecuniary list of the Royal Literary Society. Certainly he deserves it, if genius and necessity could do so. But I do not belong to the society, nor do I propose to enter it as a coadjutor. I don't like your royal academies of this kind; they almost always fall into jobs, and the members are seldom those who do credit to the literature of a country. It affected, too, to comprehend those men of letters who ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... aren't so plentiful here. At least I knew there were white men at those tents—that funny red-haired man and yourself. You see it was the only place about here where I knew I could find anybody who—what shall I say? Why, who doesn't belong in this weird atmosphere——It was uncanny over at our place this evening. At sunset the water in the swimming pool didn't seem to be water at all; it seemed molten gold; and the mosaic round it seemed to be made up of whitened bones, and back of that ...
— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen
... guard of honour when I went to the palace, and taught Bombay the way Nazirs was presented at courts in India. Altogether we made a good show. When this was concluded I went with Nasib up a hill, from which we could see the lake on one side, and on the other a large range of huts said to belong to the king's uncle, the second of the late king Sunna's brothers, who was not burnt to death when ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke
... belong to a college which can do nothing but howl at night, since the greatest slackers in the 'Varsity howl the loudest. Dennison worked hard for popularity among senior men, but he cared nothing for the college, and several of the freshers knew that if he got ...
— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley


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