Definition of Belong

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Belong

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

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

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

To be suitable for; to be due to.

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.

To be deserved by.

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Belong Quotations

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Kahlil Gibran

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
Bill Cosby

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

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

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
Ogden Nash

Belong Translations

belong in French is appartenons, faire partie de, appartiens
belong in Spanish is pertenecer

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