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Definition of Belong to
1. Verb. Be a part or adjunct. "These pages don't belong"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belong To
Literary usage of Belong to
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam ( Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1895)
"In the a great and civilized monarchy, ought to belong to ... to that inequality
liarly belong to the sovereign or common- - which is occasioned by a ..."
2. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"He quitted the young man with these words: "You'll come soon, will you not?
for you belong to it." "To what?" "The calf s head!" "What calf s head? ..."
3. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1823)
"... in this place any concern) those of them which belong to any one of those
sanctions, differ not ultimately in kind from those which belong to any one of ..."
4. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"... think you the finer "I suppose pedigree and land belong to a fine match," said
Deronda, coldly. " The best horse will win in spite of pedigree, my boy. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"These, if they belong to the Baptism, are clearly out of place, rendered unnecessary,
as Mr. Warren suggests, by the introduction of the larger Roman ..."
6. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"The shafts of my life are far-hurled- I cannot belong to you! . . . I belong to
the cataract, leaping; I belong to the west-wind, weeping; I belong to the ..."
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