belong

verb

1. (intransitive)To have its proper place.

   “Where does this book belong? It belongs on the top shelf.”

2. (intransitive)To have its proper place.

   “You don’t belong here — get out.”

3. (intransitive, with-to)To have its proper place.

   “I don’t belong to the Southside Crew.”

4. (intransitive, with-to)To be the property of, or be bound to by dependency or as an attribute.

   “That house belongs to me.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

5. (intransitive, with-to)To be the spouse or partner of.

   “John wanted to ask Mary out on a date, but learned that Mary belonged to another man.”

6. (intransitive)(followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol ∈ means belongs to.

   “Suppose x belongs to #92;mathbb#123;R#125;…”

7. (obsolete, transitive)To be deserved by.

   “More evils belong us than happen to us.”

8. (Cornwall)To do something habitually or customarily.

   “Belong. To be accustomed; to be due. He belongs to go every day. The 'bus belongs to start soon.”

   “[…] she belong to behave now she's growed up.”

prep

1. Of, belonging to.

   “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.”