Definition of belong

"belong" in the verb sense

1. belong

be owned by be in the possession of

"This book belongs to me"

2. belong

be suitable or acceptable

"This student somehow doesn't belong"

3. belong, go

be in the right place or situation

"Where do these books belong?"

"Let's put health care where it belongs

4. belong

be rightly classified in a class or category

"The whales belong among the mammals"

5. belong

be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place

"They belong to the same political party"

6. belong to, belong

be a part or adjunct

"the uniform looks like it belonged to a museum collection"

"These pages don't belong"

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Quotations for belong

Wit and humor belong to genius alone. [ Cervantes ]

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong.
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. [ Keats ]

Nature has no moods; they belong to man alone. [ Auerbach ]

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind. [ Goethe ]

A man's friends belong no more to him than he to them. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery. [ J. G. Holland ]

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

Duty and today are ours; results and futurity belong to God. [ Horace Greeley ]

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven. [ Francis ]

Can eternity belong to me, poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? [ Young ]

The people once belonged to the kings; now the kings belong to the people. [ Heine ]

The ambitious do not belong to themselves: they are the slaves of the world.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. [ Burke ]

Near and far do not belong to the eternal world, which is not of space and time. [ Carlyle ]

He who boasts of his lineage boasts of that which does not properly belong to him. [ Seneca ]

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they never pardon, who commit the wrong. [ Dryden ]

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her. [ Balzac ]

The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others. [ Syrus ]

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. [ Dante ]

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. [ Socrates ]

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. [ Hare ]

Have you so much leisure from your own business that you can take care of other people's that does not at all belong to you? [ Terence ]

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us; we have had our day; now let the children have theirs. [ R. W. Emerson ]

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume. [ Burke ]

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age - the only perfectly beautiful things on earth - joyous, innocent, half divine - useless, say they who are wiser than God. [ Ouida ]

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless soul, like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! [ Chapin ]

A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker? I don't know, was the answer, what was the name of his other eye? [ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature? [ Emerson ]

belong in Scrabble®

The word belong is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters belong:

BELONG
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word belong

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belong in Words With Friends™

The word belong is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters belong:

BELONG
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Words within the letters of belong

2 letter words in belong (6 words)

3 letter words in belong (12 words)

4 letter words in belong (12 words)

5 letter words in belong (3 words)

6 letter words in belong (1 word)

belong + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence belong

Words that start with belong (5 words)

Words with belong in them (2 words)

Words that end with belong (1 word)

Word Growth involving belong

Shorter words in belong

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on long

Longer words containing belong

belonged

belonging belongings

belonging unbelonging

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