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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



... favourable for viewing mankind as a whole, and, therefore, advantageous for a poet who, like Goethe, was open to universal impressions. Though his maternal grandfather was chief magistrate of Frankfort, and his father was an Imperial Councillor, the family did not belong to the elite of the city; Goethe, brilliant youth of genius though he was, was not regarded as an eligible match for the daughter of a Frankfort banker. It was the father who was the dominating figure in the home life of the family; and the ...
— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown
... revolving dome and the ambitious souls peeping through the roof, would be a good subject for the next symposium. They might tell us whether these ambitious souls that peep through the roof are Concordian philosophers, or belong to the schools of Aquinas ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 - Volume 1, Number 8 • Various
... seen him. I can answer positively on that point, for the musketeers belong to our forces and Monsieur de Cambon, the substitute for Monsieur d'Artagnan, still ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... their neighbours and their own retreat, as if they were of too exclusive a temper to associate with the common herd; while others, of quite a different species, appeared to have no false pride which prevented them from associating with the rest, of whatever class they might belong to, for they were "hail fellow well met" almost on their arrival with ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... calmly wait for him," said the brethren, and they remained standing. When the rider was quite close to them, he dismounted quickly and asked: "Do you belong ...
— I.N.R.I. - A prisoner's Story of the Cross • Peter Rosegger


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