2. Noun. (U.K.) One who has close ties to a specific overseas territory, normally by ancestry, and is therefore granted certain rights. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Belonger
1. a person of conservative values [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belonger
Literary usage of Belonger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"It is well known that the Spanish Inqu least as much civil as ecclesiastical ;
or rather, it belonger Church, not to the papal organisation. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1870)
"... and taking shape in Scotland—this, viz., that every one in the nation ought
to get the fir-' rudiments of the learning which would make him a belonger, ..."
3. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1836)
"Twenty five or thirty of these belonger to a lady DO bow connected with the church.
This lady often declared that her best servants were those who were the ..."
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