belonger
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Noun
    
belonger (plural belongers)
- One who belongs; a member.
-  1997, John K. Hale, Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style, page 156:- While both are poets of exile, Dante is more of a belonger and less of a loner.
 
 
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- (Britain) One who has close ties to a specific overseas territory, normally by ancestry, and is therefore granted certain rights.
-  1999, Yash P. Ghai, Hong Kong's new constitutional order, page 158:- All British subjects (i.e., any Commonwealth citizens) born in Hong Kong were belongers.
 
 
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