belongverb
uk/bɪˈlɒŋ/us/bɪˈlɑːŋ/B2 [ I + adv/prep ] to be in the right place or a suitable place:
This table belongs in the sitting room.
Where do these spoons belong?
These papers belong with the others.
B2 [ I ] to feel happy or comfortable in a situation:
After three years in Cambridge, I finally feel as if I belong here.
More examples
- Although she's new to the school, we'd like her to feel that she belongs.
- I think these cups belong in the other cupboard.
- This is a gentleman's club - women don't belong here.
- In those days they felt that children belonged in the nursery and out of sight.
- Dirty boots do not belong on the table, now do they?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Being suitable or unsuitable
- age-barred
- answer
- be made for sb/sth idiom
- become
- befit
- behove
- bill
- do 1
- find your own level idiom
- fit
- fit in
- fit the bill idiom
- go
- lend
- make
- order
- out of order idiom
- part
- sb's face doesn't fit idiom
- unworthy
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Phrasal verb(s)
belong to sb
belong to sth