Definition of belongs

"belongs" 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 belongs

To truth belongs freedom. [ Richter ]

The world belongs to the energetic. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

To the fool-king belongs the world. [ Schiller ]

Victory belongs to the most persevering. [ Napoleon I ]

Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age. [ Cicero ]

What belongs to the public, is nobody's property. [ Proverb ]

There belongs more than whistling to a ploughman. [ Proverb ]

Victory belongs to him who has the most perseverance. [ Napoleon I ]

More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. [ Proverb ]

When all men have what belongs to them it cannot be much. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. [ Novalis ]

A pot that belongs to many, is ill stirred and worse boiled. [ Proverb ]

In nine cases out of ten, the evil tongue belongs to a disappointed man. [ Bancroft ]

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. [ Fielding ]

When asked what kind of wine he liked to drink he replied, That which belongs to another. [ Diogenes Laertius ]

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face. [ Montaigne ]

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. [ Plutarch ]

Hate belongs with sin. If we do a wrong, we hate either the thing or God, or ourselves, or somebody else. [ Duffield ]

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind; a narrow-minded man has it not, for to him they are great things. [ Whately ]

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, I came, I saw, I conquered. [ Lavater ]

The world will be to each one of us very much what we make it. The cheerful are its real possessors, for the world belongs to those who enjoy it. [ Samuel Smiles ]

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Every day is a gift I receive from heaven; let us enjoy today that which it bestows on me. It belongs not more to the young than to me, and tomorrow belongs to no one. [ Mancroix ]

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart; but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection. [ Landor ]

The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them; consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns. [ Chapin ]

Unconsciousness belongs to pure unmixed life; consciousness, to a diseased mixture and conflict of life and death; unconsciousness is the sign of creation; consciousness, at best, that of manufacture. So deep, in this existence of ours, is the significance of mystery. [ Carlyle ]

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite. [ Victor Cousin ]

belongs in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters belongs:

BELONGS
(90 = 40 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word belongs

BELONGS
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BELONGS
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BELONGS
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BELONGS
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BELONGS
(61 = 11 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In belongs

BELONGS
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BELONGS
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BELONGS
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BELONGS
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BELONGS
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belongs in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

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

BELONGS
(113 = 78 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

belongs

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word belongs

BELONGS
(113 = 78 + 35)
BELONGS
(101 = 66 + 35)
BELONGS
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BELONGS
(95 = 60 + 35)
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BELONGS
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In belongs

BELONGS
(113 = 78 + 35)
BELONGS
(101 = 66 + 35)
BELONGS
(101 = 66 + 35)
BELONGS
(95 = 60 + 35)
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BELONG
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