Definition of "belong"

belong¹

/bɪˈlɒŋ/

verb
third-person singular simple present belongs, present participle belonging, simple past and past participle belonged
1. (intransitive) To have its proper place.
  1. (of a person) To be accepted in a group.
  2. (followed by to) To be a part of a group.
2. (intransitive, followed by to) To be part of, or the property of.
  Quotations
  Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
  A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.
  1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
3. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of.
4. (intransitive, set theory) (followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol ∈ means belongs to.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To be deserved by.
  Quotations
  More evils belong us than happen to us.
  1953, Ben Jonson, Timber: Or, Discoveries‎, page 70

belong²

/bɪˈlɒŋ/

preposition
1. (Australian Aboriginal, optionally followed by to) Of, belonging to.
  Quotations
  Jim Campbell, Charlie, Dick, ... Fred, lubra b’longa him, me, thass all.
  1915, E. R. Masson, Untamed Territory
  By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.
  1936, M. & E. Durack, Chunuma
  Those who had persevered with the course and had acquired some skill were now almost deferentially called ‘Maban (expert) belonga clay’.
  1977, N. Kolig, Playing Alonga Mud
  Them two bin help’m too, and that father blung to this one old Frank.
  1986 December, Kowanyama News
  There’s the bloke that’s kill that feller, uncle belong you an me.
  1986, B. Shaw, Countrymen
  Get that fire [wood] stacked up like that tree there, that high ... It wasn’t wood belong to that fire pile. Might be for station, or somebody else, you know.
  1991, D. B. Rose, Hidden Histories