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belong
[ bih-lawng, -long ]
verb (used without object)
- to be in the relation of a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (usually followed by to ):
He belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
- to have the proper qualifications, especially social qualifications, to be a member of a group:
You don't belong in this club.
- to be proper or due; be properly or appropriately placed, situated, etc.:
Books belong in every home. This belongs on the shelf. He is a statesman who belongs among the great.
verb phrase
- to be the property of:
The book belongs to her.
- to be a part or adjunct of:
That cover belongs to this jar.
belong
/ bɪˈlɒŋ /
verb
- foll by to to be the property or possession (of)
- foll by to to be bound to (a person, place, or club) by ties of affection, dependence, allegiance, or membership
- foll byto, under, with, etc to be classified (with)
this plant belongs to the daisy family
- foll by to to be a part or adjunct (of)
this top belongs to the smaller box
- to have a proper or usual place
that plate belongs in the cupboard
- informal.to be suitable or acceptable, esp socially
although they were rich, they just didn't belong
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Example Sentences
He also earned a Grammy and platinum record for “Up Where We Belong.”
They seem to belong to us, and then they freely go—behavior very uncharacteristic of a shadow or a shoe.
“For the record, I do not believe unions belong in government—including the police force,” Sherk said in an e-mail.
“Most Jamaicans are religious and belong to fundamentalist Christian denominations,” he said.
Others earn our admiration because they belong more to a particular moment.
The seeds, however, are so small that the variety to which they belong cannot be determined except by planting or sowing them.
I should judge from the streets that not more than one-fourth of the females of Galway belong to the shoe-wearing aristocracy.
The leukocytes of pus, pus-corpuscles, belong almost wholly to this variety.
He explained quietly that he did not belong here, but was making a tour of the parishes of Wurttemberg and Baden.
The great majority belong to the colon bacillus group, and are negative to Gram's method of staining.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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