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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



... things belong to one, sir, who, like you, is among the missing. But, oh, thank God! he is missing at the front, ...
— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable
... was finished, I told Alec I had something to shew him, which did not belong to me, but which might or might not be of value to ...
— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling
... not accompanied by a solicitor, and it is not the etiquette of the profession to which I belong to see a client unaccompanied ...
— Mr. Meeson's Will • H. Rider Haggard
... women, she shows a great nervousness and restlessness whenever I venture to express any opinion upon a class of subjects which can hardly be said to belong to any man or set of men as their strictly private property,—not even to the clergy, or the newspapers commonly called "religious." Now, although it would be a great luxury to me to obtain my ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... in the blended tongues of the women of the different nationalities who belong to the International Council, I salute and congratulate you.... I beg the proud honor of placing your name, Miss Anthony, among the list of Patrons of the Council as a birthday gift, where it shall one day be ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various


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