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
I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.
Steve Jobs
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
I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx
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.
Khalil Gibran
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Coco Chanel
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Belong Translations
belong in French is appartenons, faire partie de, appartiens
belong in Spanish is pertenecer
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