belong

[Be*longĀ·]

Things that belong to you are your property in other words, you own them. Your prized rock collection belongs to you.

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To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

Verb
be owned by; be in the possession of; "This book belongs to me"

Verb
originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

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be classified with; "The whales belong among the mammals"

Verb
be suitable or acceptable; "This student somehow doesn''t belong"

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be in the right place or situation; "Where do these books belong?"; "Let''s put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?"

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v. i.
To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

v. i.
To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.

v. i.
To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.

v. i.
To be suitable for; to be due to.

v. i.
To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.

v. t.
To be deserved by.


Belong

Be*long" , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Belonged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Belonging.] [OE. belongen (akin to D. belangen to concern, G. belangen to attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. i.] [Usually construed with to.] 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.
A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids.
The mighty men which belonged to David.
3. To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. "Do not interpretations belong to God ?" Gen. xl. 8. 4. To be suitable for; to be due to.
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.
No blame belongs to thee.
5. To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.
Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong.

Belong

Be*long" , v. t. To be deserved by. [Obs.]
More evils belong us than happen to us.

To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

To be deserved by.

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Usage Examples

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

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Other Usage Examples

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

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