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member.

One who belongs to a group.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmɛm.bə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈmɛm.bɚ/Canada, General-American/ˈmɪ̟m.bɚ/pin-pen-merger/ˈmem.bə/Australia

  1. One who belongs to a group.

  2. A part of a whole.

    The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.

  3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.

  4. The penis.

    euphemistic

  5. One of the propositions making up a syllogism.

  6. An element of a set.

  7. the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.

    Australia

  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.

    The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.

  11. A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.

Where this word comes from

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.

verb

  1. Pronunciation spelling of remember.

    alt-of · dialectal · obsolete · pronunciation-spelling
Where this word comes from

Clipping of remember (by apheresis).

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