Belong
- v. t. To be deserved by.
- v. i. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
- v. i. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.
- v. i. To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.
- v. i. To be suitable for; to be due to.
- v. i. To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.