transcription, транскрипция: [ bɪlɒŋ, AM -lɔ:ŋ ]
( belongs, belonging, belonged)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something belongs to you, you own it.
The house had belonged to her family for three or four generations.
VERB : no cont , V to n
2.
You say that something belongs to a particular person when you are guessing, discovering, or explaining that it was produced by or is part of that person.
The handwriting belongs to a male...
VERB : no cont , V to n
3.
If someone belongs to a particular group, they are a member of that group.
I used to belong to a youth club.
VERB : no cont , V to n
4.
If something or someone belongs in or to a particular category, type, or group, they are of that category, type, or group.
The judges could not decide which category it belonged in...
VERB : no cont , V in/to n
5.
If something belongs to a particular time, it comes from that time.
The pictures belong to an era when there was a preoccupation with high society.
VERB : no cont , V to n
6.
If you say that something belongs to someone, you mean that person has the right to it.
...but the last word belonged to Rosanne.
VERB : no cont , V to n
7.
If you say that a time belongs to a particular system or way of doing something, you mean that that time is or will be characterized by it.
The future belongs to democracy.
VERB : no cont , V to n
8.
If a baby or child belongs to a particular adult, that adult is his or her parent or the person who is looking after him or her.
He deduced that the two children belonged to the couple.
VERB : no cont , V to n
9.
When lovers say that they belong together , they are expressing their closeness or commitment to each other.
I really think that we belong together...
He belongs with me.
V-RECIP : no cont , V together , V with n
10.
If a person or thing belongs in a particular place or situation, that is where they should be.
You don’t belong here...
I’m so glad to see you back where you belong...
They need to feel they belong.
VERB : no cont , V adv / prep , V adv / prep , V
• be‧long‧ing
...a man utterly without a sense of belonging.
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