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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
belong
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of belonging (=a feeling that you belong to a group)
▪ The organization tries to foster a sense of belonging through these social events.
belong to a category
▪ A lot of water plants belong to this category.
belong to a class
▪ Like you, I belong to the working class.
belong to a club
▪ Do you belong to any university clubs or societies?
belong to a gang
▪ Eleven men belonging to a local gang were arrested.
belong to a group
▪ Ben belonged to an environmental group.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
here
▪ She is realizing she does not belong here.
▪ I felt ugly, odd: a tall, pale woman from some other world who did not belong here at all.
▪ He belonged here, fitted so well with Venice's proud past.
▪ The thing did not belong here, trespassing in my room.
▪ More than anything else Alexei knew that he was not like his father, and could never belong here.
▪ Question is, does your child belong here, too?
▪ She belonged here, where things weren't real.
once
▪ Drunk one day, driving her on his Harley, he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London.
▪ Later it was discovered that the mirror once belonged to Monroe.
▪ Asked about the photographs, Walter Kern said only that he once belonged to an outdoor nature group.
▪ It once belonged to his father, and, before that, to his grandfather.
▪ She says they once belonged to her eldest brother.
▪ The charter granted Calvert palatinate powers over a domain of almost seven million acres from what had once belonged to Virginia.
▪ The rubies rumoured to have belonged once to Marie-Antoinette had been dispatched to the diva, who always wore scarlet.
really
▪ The most difficult job will be to rehouse and reshape soccer while remembering just who it really belongs to.
▪ Because of his color, it has been repeatedly assumed that he does not really belong at Vassar.
▪ Sooner or later we must find somewhere that we can know really belongs to us.
▪ Why do they really belong together?
▪ They were the first to leave their societies, their classes, and they never really belonged anywhere again.
▪ They had no doubt that the hypothesis stated in Allison's paper really belongs to Mark.
▪ It was a long time since she had really belonged anywhere.
▪ But from the first day until now I have never really belonged.
to
▪ Most importantly it is a place members recognise as a privilege to belong to.
▪ This is because the greatest melody-writers belong to past epochs and set an example which modern composers can hardly match.
▪ The cottage the gate belonged to had disappeared, but perversely its gate had been left behind.
▪ One in ten of the population either belongs to or works for the Securitate.
▪ They belonged to Home Sister and, of all people, the Night Super.
▪ It wasn't, actually, if you could forget who it belonged to, a bad body.
▪ It seems that these patterns are maintained by insider knowledge depending on the extent to which speakers belong to relatively close-knit groups.
▪ It should also be noted that for the purposes of theft property may belong to more than one party.
■ NOUN
car
▪ The second picture showed what remained of the wrecked car in Prague, the car which had belonged to Ladislav Sacher.
▪ The lost or damaged car will then belong to us.
▪ A Northern registered car, believed to belong to the men, was discovered at Annagh, a few miles from the town.
▪ Another hit a car belonging to the owner of the house.
category
▪ At least some of the seven small buildings just outside the military compounds at Corbridge may also belong in this category.
▪ This series belongs to the latter category, believe it.
▪ The clinic records, from an inner city teaching hospital we examined indicate that some believe sildenafil may belong in this category.
▪ Family stories, such as the ones about my Aunt Naomi belong to a special category.
▪ Language has always been regarded as belonging among these secondary categories.
▪ Have the students name some other things which belong in each category. 2.
▪ Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed.
▪ The essence of any collection of stamps or of teapots must be that each specimen belongs in a distinct category.
church
▪ Father Barnes will know whether it belongs to the church and with luck there may be prints.
▪ It should be said immediately that Robertson does not belong to a Pentecostal church.
▪ The church sends an invitation to any who do not belong to a particular church, but would like to join in.
▪ Do not mention your religion unless you are applying to work for a religious organization and you also belong to that church.
▪ Some say that to belong to the kingdom of Heaven is the same as belonging to the Church.
▪ He belonged to no church and required no worship by those who worked for him.
▪ Being a member of the kingdom goes beyond simply belonging to any individual Church.
▪ The members ordinarily share some link like working for the same employer or belonging to the same church.
class
▪ Most examinees belong to the first class, most examiners to the third.
▪ Of three of the principal women, Midge and Alexia so clearly belong to different classes, and Cressy to none.
▪ Others claim that routine white-collar workers still belong to the middle class.
▪ Rebiya Kadeer also belonged to this ruling class.
club
▪ Harvey took me out to a sauna club he belonged to.
▪ He joined the riding club; he somehow got into the club that she belonged to.
▪ This had to be at a restaurant, because the only club that Richard belonged to was Pratt's.
▪ And at Scotch Corner, fellow members of motorcycling clubs to which they belong turned out to greet them.
community
▪ It is whether the pursuit of justice, fairness and efficiency can also deliver belonging, cohesion and community.
▪ The musicians belonged to indigenous Maya communities decimated by the 36-year-long conflict.
▪ The people who are losing their homes belong to a settled community with centuries-old traditions.
▪ Moreover, nation-states belong to the community of nations, whether the United Nations or trading blocs.
▪ And how do men and women know that they belong to this community?
▪ And in the longer term it should try to bring back into favour the notion that we all belong to a community.
▪ For indigenous peoples, the values and sense of belonging to a community which aspires only to serve the world are paramount.
▪ More recently, a number of voluntary initiatives have sought to foster a sense of belonging to the community on the part of young people.
family
▪ No. 7/19 by Alliprandi belonged to the Sternberg family.
▪ Millions of children belong to families whose income is at or below income support level.
▪ Women were crazy about him the most beautiful, the wealthiest women who belonged to the great families.
▪ He belongs to the family Salicaceae and is formally known as Populus alba.
▪ She belongs to a family descended from free Blacks those released from slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
▪ They belong to the family of a former employee of the Bishop's Castle Railway.
▪ Nevertheless, they all belong to the same family, especially when they are contrasted with their neighbour, the Catholic West.
generation
▪ She belonged to a generation who had fine voices and who were also dramatically credible.
▪ The girl was a year older but seemed to belong to a different generation.
▪ I belong to a generation born in Britain or brought here as young children.
▪ He belonged to the old-fashioned generation which believed in covering itself carefully from the sun.
▪ They belong to a generation which likes the feel of crisp fivers and tenners in their hands.
group
▪ This handbook will help to give you an overall view of the businesses of the P&O Group to which you belong.
▪ It is not the fact that you belong to minority groups, but how you handle them that counts.
▪ It now belongs to the Wedgwood group.
▪ I was thirty-three that year and belonged to neither group.
▪ Most of the countries with viable alcohol programmes are likely to belong to this group.
▪ Meyer, who belongs to several groups, is known for his diehard devotion to authenticity.
▪ Many regionals belong to a group of newspapers, such as the Thompson Newspapers Group, and syndicate material.
▪ According to this approach, any particular individual can belong to many different groups.
house
▪ Drunk one day, driving her on his Harley, he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London.
▪ The house had belonged to a farmer whose family had been hit by tragedy.
▪ It is a fine yeoman's house belonging to the National Trust.
▪ This will keep heat in the house, where it belongs, and out of the attic. 2.
▪ The house now belongs to a buxom blonde from Lyon, wife of a driving instructor.
▪ Neighbors said the house belongs to a middle-aged couple with an adult daughter.
▪ To the large eighteenth-century house that belonged to Patrick Kelly.
▪ The third collection in the house belongs to Klara Durbeck.
land
▪ A third group then comes and declares the land belongs to them; they may demand 30,000 rupees.
▪ And besides, why should these guys get to make plans for state land, which belongs to all of us?
▪ A local knight called Walter had usurped land belonging to the dependent monastery of Fleury at Sault.
▪ For 45 years, the land atop South Mountain belonged to the Physioc family.
▪ His government argued that the small temples which it had demolished were on land belonging to the state tourist department.
▪ His land belonged to her for many years.
▪ Deeply rooted in peasant culture was the belief that the land should belong to whoever worked it with his own hands.
▪ The land belongs to the army!
member
▪ There are 14,500 national members belonging to 343 branches, which have an additional 21,000 branch members.
party
▪ Yes, some of us belonged to the Party.
▪ It should also be noted that for the purposes of theft property may belong to more than one party.
▪ The main question was: did he belong to the Communist Party?
▪ If they belong to the party that wins power they may well take on a government office of some kind.
▪ Let us suppose that representatives belong to political parties.
property
▪ All the mural fountains were built on the boundaries of properties belonging to the Pease family.
▪ I learnt then from Jean-Claude that the property had never belonged to the family.
▪ Like many other historic properties, Hackfall belonged to an owner who reputedly would never sell.
▪ It should also be noted that for the purposes of theft property may belong to more than one party.
▪ Earlier this month they attacked property belonging to Coptic Christians, burning their churches, shops and homes.
▪ Murder; and Theft: dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of it.
sense
▪ In more senses than one they belong to no man's land.
▪ Unlike most compilation soundtracks, there is a sense that these songs belong together.
▪ In particular, it is not clear how a sense of well-being and a sense of belonging are connected.
▪ These systems gave people an identity a place, and a sense of belonging.
▪ He grew up oppressed by the sense of belonging to a broken culture, deprived of his inheritance.
▪ It became a meditation on that sense of belonging, of identity, of alienation and how important all of that is.
▪ All that is necessarily involved is a sense of belonging that excludes indifference to the group as well as alienation from it.
▪ For indigenous peoples, the values and sense of belonging to a community which aspires only to serve the world are paramount.
species
▪ Anyone who could get excited by an annuity scheme must belong to a different species from his own.
▪ Most often they belong to the following species.
▪ They might have belonged to a different species.
▪ Gray moths still could interbreed with black moths, proving that they belonged to the same species.
▪ The Witnesses of the Total Merge catalogued all those ships believed to belong to other client species of the Capellans.
▪ The plants offered by this name belong to the species E. berteroi.
▪ The first problem that faces the cuckoo is to find a nest belonging to the right species of host.
▪ How are we to decide whether populations living in different places belong to the same species?
union
▪ All non-managerial personnel belong to the same union, but the privilege of membership is confined to regular workers.
▪ And in the economically dynamic South and West, only 5 percent of the work force belongs to a union.
▪ They were highly competitive, didn't belong to trade unions and lacked any notion of worker solidarity.
▪ Credit unions are a force in the Golden State, where 7. 6 million people belong to 773 credit unions.
▪ And they belonged to no recognised union.
▪ Individuals must be given greater rights to belong the union of their choice.
▪ Congregations may belong to a Union of Baptist Churches, but each has considerable autonomy.
world
▪ They belong to a world a hundred years away from us.
▪ He had been to school one day and already he was using phrases and assuming roles that belonged to a different world.
▪ The dances of the four Lovers belong to both worlds.
▪ They do not belong to the world.
▪ The shouting voices did not belong to our little world of passionate love.
▪ Just as the sailing ship belonged to a world before jobs, the space ship belongs to a world after jobs.
▪ I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world.
■ VERB
feel
▪ She hung around in their sub-hippy world, camouflaged, but never feeling she belonged.
▪ I was a fraud, a composite of traits I felt rightfully belonged to these two.
▪ He had never felt as if he belonged.
▪ It is unusual for me to participate or to feel I belong if I do.
▪ I have spent my adult life here but because of little pinpricks I feel I don't belong.
▪ You see, strange as it may seem, I always felt I belonged here.
▪ She ascribes much of her feeling of not belonging to class differences rather than to race.
seem
▪ The glamour of limed oak - creating an atmosphere that seems to belong entirely in the country.
▪ The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
▪ But the rest seemed to belong to another artist.
▪ They seem wholly to belong to where they are.
▪ Belle-Ile, however, seems to belong to a past era of modest and amateur tourism.
▪ What a strange sight, but even that seemed to belong where it was.
▪ The girl was a year older but seemed to belong to a different generation.
▪ Their very vocabulary was unfamiliar to him, and seemed to belong to fiction and the stage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Can you put that back where it belongs?
▪ I felt I belonged there - I was important there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As if we were all adopted, no one belonged anywhere.
▪ Clearly the appeal of the Virgo archetype belonged to the spirit of the age.
▪ Could it be that some of us might like it better if they stayed where they belong?
▪ I belonged to the local farmers' club and had taken up curling.
▪ Over 8,000 people regularly enjoy the benefits of Medau classes - but - only 25% of them belong to the Medau Society.
▪ The mosque and the Koran belong to women as much as do the heavenly bodies.
▪ Toussaint had no toys and never asked to play with those belonging to others.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belong

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.] Note: [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.
    --Luke ix. 10.

    The mighty men which belonged to David.
    --1 Kings i. 8.

  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.
    --Heb. v. 14.

    No blame belongs to thee.
    --Shak.

  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.
    --Blackstone.

Belong

Belong \Be*long"\, v. t. To be deserved by. [Obs.]

More evils belong us than happen to us.
--B. Jonson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
belong

mid-14c., "to go along with, properly relate to," from be- intensive prefix, + longen "to go," from Old English langian "pertain to, to go along with," which is of unknown origin. Senses of "be the property of" and "be a member of" first recorded late 14c. Cognate with Middle Dutch belanghen, Dutch belangen, German belangen. Replaced earlier Old English gelang, with completive prefix ge-.

Wiktionary
belong

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (label en intransitive) To have its proper place. 2 # (label en of a person) To be accepted in a group. 3 # (label en followed by ''to'') To be a part of a group. 4 (label en intransitive followed by ''to'') To be part of, or the property of. Etymology 2

alt. (context Australian Aboriginal‎ optionally followed by '''to''' English) of, belonging to. prep. (context Australian Aboriginal‎ optionally followed by '''to''' English) of, belonging to.

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WordNet
belong

  1. v. be owned by; be in the possession of; "This book belongs to me"

  2. originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" [syn: dwell, consist, lie, lie in]

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

  4. 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?" [syn: go]

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

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Wikipedia
Belong (band)

Belong is an American experimental music duo composed of Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones. The group formed in New Orleans in 2002. Their debut album, October Language, was recorded in 2004 and released in 2006. The duo's sound blends ambient styles, with a focus on guitar textures. Reviews have made comparisons to current electronica artists like Fennesz and Tim Hecker, as well as the early 1990s shoegazing sound attributed to bands such as My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Guitars and synthesizers are run through various effects to produce the band's sound.

In January 2008, their Tour EP, (recorded in 2005, sold as a CDr at live shows in February 2006) surfaced in 128 kbit/s quality, ripped by a fan. Belong directly offered it to fans in MP3 for free, at a higher quality 192 kbit/s. This was also done for their latest EP, Same Places, this time in 320 kbit/s.

In 2009, October Language was released on vinyl by Geographic North Records, a label based out of Atlanta, GA.

Belong (album)

Belong is the second studio album from New York indie band The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. It was released on March 29, 2011 through Slumberland Records in the US and Fortuna Pop! in the UK. The album was recorded in the fall of 2010 after extensive touring in support of the band's debut album. It was produced by Flood and mixed by Alan Moulder.

Belong (play)

Belong is a contemporary play by British playwright Bola Agbaje. Following the life of a failed British politician who unexpectedly finds opportunity in his remote hometown village in Nigeria, Belong explores the impact of Western culture and the meaning of home and family. Originally coproduced by the Royal Court Theatre and the Tiata Fahodzi Company, Belong opened to critical acclaim, receiving praise for its ability to "tackle big issues" and "switch deftly between Britain and Nigeria."

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Usage examples of "belong".

I shall leave for Naples to-morrow, and I know I shall be cured in time of the mad passion I feel for you, but if you tell me that I can accompany you to Parma, you must promise me that your heart will forever belong to me alone.

As there is a kind of commutation in favors, when, to wit, a man gives thanks for a favor received, so also is there commutation in the matter of offenses, when, on account of an offense committed against another, a man is either punished against his will, which pertains to vindictive justice, or makes amends of his own accord, which belongs to penance, which regards the person of the sinner, just as vindictive justice regards the person of the judge.

The advowson belongs to the Earl, who will dispose of it only to great interest, I am afraid.

The van, which belonged to a CBA affiliate station, KDLS-TV, had been setting up for a sports broadcast from Arlington Stadium, but now that story had been abandoned and the van dispatched to DFW.

He accordingly took possession of Comachio and some other places, pretending they were allodial estates belonging to the duke of Modena, and fiefs of the emperor, to which the holy see had no lawful claim.

The Apostolical Succession, the two prominent sacraments, and the primitive Creeds, belonged, indeed, to the latter, but there had been and was far less strictness on matters of dogma and ritual in the Anglican system than in the Roman: in consequence, my main argument for the Anglican claims lay in the positive and special charges, which I could bring against Rome.

Mure says that the doctrine of apotheosis belonged to the Graco Pelasgic race through all their history.

The number of the family to which each genus belongs is appended, as this serves to show the place of each in the series.

Therefore, the whole of this seems to belong to the form of this sacrament: and the same hold good of the works appertaining to the blood.

Soul to be appropriated on the lower ranges to some individual, but to belong on the higher to that other sphere?

With reference to the lands attached to bishoprics the chancellor of the exchequer laid down this principle, namely, that if by the act of parliament to be introduced any new value was given to benefices, that new value not belonging properly to the church might be appropriated to the exigencies of the state.

State owes to its citizens, it may exercise its jurisdiction over real and personal property situated within its borders belonging to a nonresident and permit an appropriation of the same in attachment proceedings to satisfy a debt owed by the nonresident to one of its citizens or to settle a claim for damages founded upon a wrong inflicted on the citizen by the nonresident.

SCHOOLS OF VERONA AND VICENZA: Artistically Verona belonged with the Venetian provinces, because it was largely an echo of Venice except at the very start.

The first black shape was the sail of a submarine, vertical and unadorned, with a slight angling fillet bringing it to the deck of the cylindrical shape, the sail identical to that of his old Seawolf, but the hull now appearing beneath the sail too small in diameter to belong to a Seawolf-class.

Should it not be found in the possession of father or son, then it will assuredly be discovered in the cabin belonging to the said Dantes on board the Pharaon.