单词 | belonger |
释义 | belongern.ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] followereOE youngereOE retenantc1390 suitora1398 waitera1500 retainer1508 pursuivant1513 villein1534 consequent1550 backmanc1560 janissary1565 jackman1566 hensure1568 belonger1577 lackey1588 sequent1598 pedissequant1607 henchman1754 gesith1861 ministerialis1888 1577 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. Ephesians xv. f. 103v Wee cannot bee called nother Citizens of heauen, nor children of God, nor belongers [Fr. appartenans] too his household . 1612 T. Helwys Shorte Declar. Mistery Iniquity 16 That power, that Pompe, that crueltie, those Canons and Courtes with the belongings and belongers therevnto. 1634 T. Heywood Mayden-head well Lost ii. sig. D4 Clow. Are you as a man should say, a belonger to? Hunt. A belonger to? what's that sir? Clow. Oh ignorant! are you a follower? ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute i-cundeOE kindOE thingOE quality1340 virtue1340 assizea1375 propertyc1390 principlea1398 conditionc1460 faculty1490 predicatea1513 epitheton1547 passion1570 propriety1584 affection1588 attribute1603 qualification1616 appropriate1618 intimacy1641 bedighting1674 belonger1674 cleaver1674 interiority1701 internal property1751 predicable1785 coloration1799 internality1839 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 12 The two first..things that the mind is likest to fasten on, as the main belongers to the world. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 112 That one belonger of unthroughfareness. 3. a. A person who belongs to a group (without implication of greater than usual involvement or commitment). Also with to. ΚΠ 1870 Macmillan's Mag. May 468/2 Everyone in the nation ought to get the first rudiments of the learning which would make him a belonger, however humble, to this great republic. 1921 Science 25 Feb. 174/2 Some men are merely ‘belongers’—others..do their full part in promoting the objects of the societies which they join. 1959 Observer 17 May 10/4 His very nature makes him a bad belonger to any group or party. 2008 T. Kostakopoulou Future Governance of Citizenship 166 The grant of a kind of European denizenship..widens the circle of ‘belongers’ to the European civil society. b. A person who actively participates in the activities of a group. Also (chiefly Marketing): a person who derives happiness or satisfaction from being part of a group; a person who strongly identifies with a group, a conformist; cf. mainstreamer n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > group associated for common purpose > member of chorister1387 leaguer1591 combinator1611 associator1613 combinant1628 combiner1638 federate1650 federator1693 band-brother1742 leagueist1762 leaguite1841 belonger1931 panel member1937 1931 Relig. Educ. Jan. 656/2 Younger ages are more easily influenced,..younger boys are great ‘belongers’. 1980 Amer. Banker 14 Oct. 10/1 The outer-directed group is broken into three subgroups: belongers, emulators and achievers... The belongers very much want to fit in, and be part of the group. 2009 C. Gilligan & R. M. S. Wilson Strategic Marketing Planning (ed. 2) ix. 364 Belongers..are conservative family-oriented people. 4. a. Also with capital initial. In some current and former British colonies and overseas territories: an immigrant who is a long-term resident; esp. one who has acquired the legal right to live and work indefinitely in that place, or who has been granted citizenship thereof. ΚΠ 1960 Times 15 July 6/5 Citizens of the United Kingdom and colonies who belonged to Cyprus—and there was a definition in the treaty of a ‘belonger’—and who were ordinarily resident in the island at any time in the last five years would become citizens of Cyprus on independence day. 1975 Tribune (Nassau, Bahamas) 11 Jan. 1 Last night's statement by Prime Minister Lynden Pindling now makes it abundantly clear why only a select number of Belongers has been granted citizenship. 1988 Daily Tel. 13 Feb. 9/3 Hongkong belongers..are proud of being Chinese. 2004 Mod. China 30 357 A United Kingdom belonger who had resided in Hong Kong for at least ten years was to be accorded special standing. b. Caribbean. A native of a particular island; a non-immigrant. ΚΠ 1985 Washington Post 11 Mar. a6/1 The population [of the Turks and Caicos Islands]..includes native islanders, known as ‘the belongers’. 1991 Times 26 Oct. (Sat. Review) 44/4 In their heart of hearts Anguillans are closet xenophobes... Wait till you come to pay your departure tax: ‘Belonger $10; Non-Belonger $16’. 2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) xxvi. 434 Native Salt Cay residents are called ‘belongers’. Many of the belongers were salt workers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1577 |
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