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belong | belonger |

As an adjective belong

is oblong.

As a noun belonger is

one who belongs; a member.

belong

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) belongen, from .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To have its proper place.
  • # (label) To be accepted in a group.
  • # To be a part of a group.
  • To be part of, or the property of.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}
  • To be the spouse or partner of. (rfex)
  • (followed by'' to''') To be an element of (a set). The symbol \in means '''''belongs to .
  • To be deserved by.
  • * (rfdate) (Ben Jonson)
  • More evils belong us than happen to us.
    Derived terms
    * belonging * belongingness

    Etymology 2

    Compare Kriol blanga'', Bislama ''blong'', Tok Pisin ''bilong'', and Torres Strait Creole ''blong .

    Alternative forms

    * blung * , belonga, blonga

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Of, belonging to.
  • * 1915, E. R. Masson, Untamed Territory
  • Jim Campbell, Charlie, Dick, ... Fred, lubra b’longa him, me, thass all.
  • * 1936, M. & E. Durack, Chunuma
  • By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.
  • * 1977, N. Kolig, Playing Alonga Mud
  • Those who had persevered with the course and had acquired some skill were now almost deferentially called ‘Maban (expert) belonga clay’.
  • * 1986, Kowanyama News, Dec.
  • Them two bin help’m too, and that father blung to this one old Frank.
  • * 1986, B. Shaw, Countrymen
  • There’s the bloke that’s kill that feller, uncle belong you an me.
  • * 1991, D. B. Rose, Hidden Histories
  • Get that fire [wood] stacked up like that tree there, that high ... It wasn’t wood belong to that fire pile. Might be for station, or somebody else, you know.

    belonger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who belongs; a member.
  • * 1997 , John K. Hale, Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style (page 156)
  • While both are poets of exile, Dante is more of a belonger and less of a loner.
  • (UK) One who has close ties to a specific overseas territory, normally by ancestry, and is therefore granted certain rights.
  • * 1999 , Yash P. Ghai, Hong Kong's new constitutional order (page 158)
  • All British subjects (i.e., any Commonwealth citizens) born in Hong Kong were belongers .

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