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belted

/ˈbɛltɪd/

belted is the simple past and past participle of belt.

Adjective

belted (not comparable)

  1. Fitted with a belt.
    • Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...”1952 April 7, “The Way Things Are”, in Time
    • She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
  2. Wearing a belt.
    • How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listened
      To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers!1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry)
  3. Characterized by a white band around the body.
    • Belted Dutch cattle
    • Belted Galloway

Meaning of belt

Verb

belt (third-person singular simple present belts, present participle belting, simple past and past participle belted)

  1. (transitive) To fasten a belt on; to encircle with a belt.
    • Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.
    Synonyms:
    buckle, fasten, strap
  2. (transitive) To encircle; to surround.
    • The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
    Synonyms:
    circle, girdle, surround
  3. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
  4. (transitive) To hit with a belt.
    • The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment.
    Synonyms:
    strap, whip
  5. (colloquial, transitive) To hit someone or something, especially forcefully; to bash.
    • The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
    Synonyms:
    bash, clobber, smack, wallop
  6. (transitive) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
    • He belted that pitch over the grandstand.

See all 26 meanings of belt

Origin of belted

From belt + -ed.

Words formed from belted

Phrases with belted

Questions about belted

What does belted mean?
Belted means fitted with a belt.
What is belted the simple past and past participle of?
Belted is the simple past and past participle of belt.
What part of speech is belted?
Belted is an adjective.
How do you pronounce belted?
Belted is pronounced /ˈbɛltɪd/.

Words near belted in the dictionary

  1. belta
  2. Beltaine
  3. Beltane
  4. beltcourse
  5. beltcourses
  6. belted
  7. belted cable
  8. belted down
  9. belted earl
  10. belted earls
  11. Belted Galloway

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: belted (page history and authors); belt (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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