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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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... jaguarundi, and the fierce coatimundi; and not unfrequently the enormous anaconda enfolds them in its deadly embrace; for the innocuous creatures can make no defence against their numerous enemies; and but for that fecundity which characterises the family to which they belong—the so called "Guinea pigs"—their race would be ...
— Bruin - The Grand Bear Hunt • Mayne Reid
... court houses have a loaded cannon at their door, chains all round them, be stuffed with foreign soldiers inside, while commissioners swear away the life, the liberty, and even the Estate of the subjected "citizens." All Probate Judges will belong to the family of man-stealers. Faneuil Hall will be shut, or open only for a "Union Meeting," where the ruler calls together his menials to indorse some new act of injustice,—only creatures of the Government, men like the marshal's guard last June, allowed ...
— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker
... consummated in mere feeling, when "that which is in part shall be done away"; but during its struggles to enter into its full inheritance, it gathers up into itself the activities of all the faculties, which act harmoniously together in proportion as the organism to which they belong is in a ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge
... of her own or allied ports, both in the West Indies and on the continent. The wisdom of this policy, the happy influence of this action of the government upon her sea power, is evident; but the details of the war do not belong to this part of the subject. To Americans, the chief interest of that war is found upon the land; but to naval officers upon the sea, for it was essentially a sea war. The intelligent and systematic efforts of twenty years bore their due fruit; for though the warfare ...
— The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 • A. T. Mahan
... any truth in Napoleon's maxim, that "The tools belong to him that can use them," then Cromwell had a God-given right to rule; for, first, he had the ability; and, next, though he used his power in his campaign in Ireland (S453) with merciless severity, yet the great purpose of his life was to establish order and justice on what seemed to ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery


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