Word Finder - belonged

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To have its proper place.

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Where does this document belong?

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(followed by to) To be part of, or the property of.

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That house belongs to me.

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(followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of.

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(followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol \in means belongs to.

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Suppose x belongs to \mathbb{R}... (— written: x \in \mathbb{R})

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To be deserved by.

In fact, Carmen had spent so much time in the Reynolds kitchen growing up that neighbors began to think she belonged there.

I thought you had finally accepted that the money belonged to both of you.

It was where she belonged, now that she'd helped those that needed it and lost her brother.

He said they as if the horses belonged to the ranch hands.

She belonged to him.

She belonged with him.

The voice on the telephone had belonged to a middle-aged woman dressed modestly in a dark suit.

Deidre never felt she belonged in the mortal or Immortal worlds, because she didn't.

How do you know it belonged to Mr. Cleary?

The bones—there's a chance they belonged to a man who may have gotten a high school girl pregnant.

She belonged here in his arms, and yet she feared what that meant.

She hadn't felt like she belonged in this world until she'd seen what good she could do.

For the first time in her adult life, Lana didn't care what he thought about her appearance or presence someplace where he might not think she belonged.

Seconds later, she was back in the mortal world, where she belonged.

Lotze publicly and formally denied that he belonged to the school of Herbart, though he admitted that historically the same doctrine which might be considered the forerunner of Herbart's teachings might lead to his own views, viz.

It was also a warning, one Gabriel understood innately, that Deidre belonged to the Dark One.

The human was okay, and his mate was at his side, where she'd always belonged.

Gabriel's matter-of-fact talk of magic and laws older than time hadn't clarified much, except that he believed she belonged to him.

With Deidre in his arms and the souls in the otherworldly lake where they belonged.

The Immortal should.ve died in Hell, where he probably belonged.

I didn't offer 'em. But I'll show the stuff to them, seeing as it all belonged to their Auntie.

But the Deans, and especially Fred O'Connor made her feel as if she truly belonged.

Slicing the end of the envelope open with one smooth movement, he placed the letter opener back where it belonged and shoved the drawer shut.

Lori had loved him then, but his heart had belonged to Carmen.

It was useless for her to fantasize about Xander, not when a couple dozen women who belonged on the covers of magazines were gathered around.

He belonged to a noble family of Scotch descent, tracing its origin to Walter Stutt, who in 1420 accompanied the earls of Buchan and Douglas to the court of France, and whose family afterwards rose to be counts of Tracy.

A fierce quarrel arose over his burial between the brotherhood of St Stephen, to which he had belonged, and the university professors, who desired to escort his corpse to the grave.

It is not known to what gens he belonged.

In 1415 it was recovered by the Turks under Mahommed I., and since that period has belonged to the Ottoman empire.

Alexius was evidently consoling himself with the reflexion that the future belonged to him.

It dates from the 11th century, and once belonged to the Ogilvies, from whom it passed in 1535 to the Gordons.

Not till 1881, however, were the Croatian-Slavonian march-lands completely merged in the kingdoms to which they naturally belonged.

The house of Bouillon was not alone in claiming the knight of the swan as an ancestor, and the tradition probably originally belonged to the house of Cleves.

He was the only king of Bohemia who belonged to that nation, and the only one who was not a Roman Catholic.

The manor belonged at an early date to the abbot of Westminster.

When that was found, the solution of one problem would immediately entail the solution of all others which belonged to the same series as itself.

The Roman emperors recognized it as a free state, and in the middle ages it was called Stampalia, and belonged to the noble Venetian family of Quirini.

In 1087 the king held the manor of Wendover, and therefore it belonged to the ancient demesne of the crown.

Robert Baillie, the patriot who was executed for conscience' sake (1684), belonged to Jerviswood, an estate on the Mouse.

Later it belonged to Meissen and to Saxony, passing to Prussia in 1814.

The northern portion of the "kingdom of Albania," including Durazzo and Kroia, was ruled by the family of Thopia (1359-1392) and afterwards by that of Kastriota, to which Scanderbeg belonged; the southern portion with Berat, by the Musaki (1368-1476).

Manitoba formerly belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company, and after the transfer of its territory to Canada was admitted in 1870 as the fifth province of the Dominion.

His son, John Napier of Rusky, the third of Merchiston, belonged to the royal household in the lifetime of his father.

His eldest son, Archibald Napier of Edinbellie, the fourth of Merchiston, belonged to the household of James IV.

The church of St Mary and St German belonged to a Benedictine abbey founded under a grant from William the Conqueror in 1069 and raised to the dignity of a mitred abbey by Pope Alexander II.

Although there is evidence of Roman and Saxon occupation of the site, the earliest mention of Brighton (Bristelmeston, Brichelmestone, Brighthelmston) is the Domesday Book record that its three manors belonged to Earl Godwin and were held by William de Warenne.

As regards the affinities of the creatures to which these jaws belonged, Professor Osborn has referred the Triconodontidae and Amphitheriidae, together with the Curtodontidae (as represented by the English Purbeck Curtodon), to a primitive group of marsupials, while he has assigned the Amblotheriidae and Stylacodontidae to an ancestral assemblage of Insectivora.

All belonged to the same totem or totemic class, and might be scattered throughout the tribe, though subject to the same marriage laws.

As in the other Saxon duchies the population is almost exclusively Protestant; in 1905, 262,243 belonged to the Lutheran confession, 4845 were Roman Catholics and 1256 Jews.

Like the rest of his family, he belonged to the Federalist party, and his appointment in 1889 as governor of Bohemia was the cause of grave dissatisfaction to the German Austrians.