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appertains

appertains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of appertain.

Meaning of appertain

Verb

appertain (third-person singular simple present appertains, present participle appertaining, simple past and past participle appertained)

  1. To belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.
    • Another issue that appertains to the policy under discussion.
  2. To belong as a part, right, possession, attribute, etc.
    • Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society., volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press...

Questions about appertains

What is appertains the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Appertains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of appertain.

Words near appertains in the dictionary

  1. appertainest
  2. appertaineth
  3. appertaining
  4. appertainment
  5. appertainments
  6. appertains
  7. appertinance
  8. appertinances
  9. appertinence
  10. appertinences
  11. appertinent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: appertains (page history and authors); appertain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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