Belongs - What does it mean?
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has no English definition.
(belong)
(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.
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, 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.}}
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, chapter=4, title= To be the spouse or partner of. (rfex)
(followed by'' to''') To be an element of (a set). The symbol means '''''belongs to .
To be deserved by.
* (rfdate) (Ben Jonson)
Of, belonging to.
* 1915, E. R. Masson, Untamed Territory
* 1936, M. & E. Durack, Chunuma
* 1977, N. Kolig, Playing Alonga Mud
* 1986, Kowanyama News, Dec.
* 1986, B. Shaw, Countrymen
* 1991, D. B. Rose, Hidden Histories
is likely misspelled.
has no English definition.
As a verb belongs
is third-person singular of belong.belongs
English
Verb
(head)belong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) belongen, from .Verb
(en verb)F. E. Penny
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.}}
- More evils belong us than happen to us.
Derived terms
* belonging * belongingnessExternal links
*Etymology 2
Compare Kriol blanga'', Bislama ''blong'', Tok Pisin ''bilong'', and Torres Strait Creole ''blong .Alternative forms
* blung * , belonga, blongaPreposition
(English prepositions)- Jim Campbell, Charlie, Dick, ... Fred, lubra b’longa him, me, thass all.
- By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.
- Those who had persevered with the course and had acquired some skill were now almost deferentially called ‘Maban (expert) belonga clay’.
- Them two bin help’m too, and that father blung to this one old Frank.
- There’s the bloke that’s kill that feller, uncle belong you an me.
- 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.
