Definition of "belonged" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of belong. (verb)

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• "His name belonged elsewhere; it was a name she might breathe on glass or whisper to herself when things were harder than she had ever imagined that anything could become."
• "But then she flushed to remember the name belonged to the boy who had stuck a bag of Halloween candy into the inkwell of her old desk."
• "Responding to CNN's D.L. Hughley's statement that Rush is the "de facto leader of the Republican party," Mr. Steele said that the title belonged to him and went on to say that Rush is a "mere entertainer" whose show is "incendiary" and "ugly.""