Get to know Appertain better with 2 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like pertain or dwell.
Appertain meaning
- To belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.
- To belong as a part, right, possession, attribute, etc.
Using Appertain
- The main meaning on this page is: To belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to. | To belong as a part, right, possession, attribute, etc.
- Useful related words include: pertain, dwell, consist, lie.
- In the example corpus, appertain often appears in combinations such as: appertain to.
Context around Appertain
- Average sentence length in these examples: 41 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 1 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Appertain
- In this selection, "appertain" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 41 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, waters and shall stand out and add context to how "appertain" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include narrow waters appertain to the and or shall appertain to them. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "appertain" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with appertain
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them? (38 words)
A line running from Oedjong Raja (coord32) in Sumatra to Poeloe Bras (Breuëh) and on through the Western Islands of the Nicobar Group to Sandy Point in Little Andaman Island, in such a way that all the narrow waters appertain to the Burma Sea. (44 words)
A line running from Oedjong Raja (coord32) in Sumatra to Poeloe Bras (Breuëh) and on through the Western Islands of the Nicobar Group to Sandy Point in Little Andaman Island, in such a way that all the narrow waters appertain to the Burma Sea. (44 words)
And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them? (38 words)
And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them? (38 words)
Example sentences (2)
A line running from Oedjong Raja (coord32) in Sumatra to Poeloe Bras (Breuëh) and on through the Western Islands of the Nicobar Group to Sandy Point in Little Andaman Island, in such a way that all the narrow waters appertain to the Burma Sea.
And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?
Common combinations with appertain
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- appertain to 2×