English Explanatory Dictionary

member

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who belongs to a group.
  2. A part of a whole.
  3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
  4. The penis.
  5. One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
  6. An element of a set.
  7. the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
  8. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
  9. Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
  10. A file stored within an archive file.
  11. A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
verb
  1. Pronunciation spelling of remember.

Pronunciation

/ˈmɛmbə/ /ˈmɛmbɚ/ en-us-member.ogg /ˈmɪ̟mbɚ/ /ˈmembə/ en-au-member.ogg

Word forms

member members membre membering membered 'member

Etymology

From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus. Coexists with native limb, from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”). Mostly displaced lith (“limb, joint, member”), from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”), which still survives in British dialect.

Synonyms

integrant limb lith pintle tarse virile member premise premiss element

Derived words

assemblymember bandmember board member cardmember castmember charter member comember councilmember cross-member crossmember data member dismember e-member end member end-member endmember Euro-member ex-member founder member founding member gang member guildmember gutter member intermember learned member life member member bank member class member country member field member for Barkshire member function memberless memberlist member of lower house member of staff member of the public member of the tribe member of upper house member organisation membership member state member variable memberwise membrification mixed-member proportional multimember non-commissioned member non-member private member's bill privy member re-member service member servicemember sitting member submember touring member transmember tribesmember unmembern
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