member

English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic *𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (*mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus.

Coexists with native Middle English lim, limb (“member, limb, joint”) (from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”)), and displaced Middle English lith (“limb, joint, member”) (from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”)).

Alternative forms

• membre (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛmbə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛmbɚ/

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• Hyphenation: mem‧ber
• Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)

Noun

member (plural members)

1. One who officially belongs to a group.
2. A part of a whole.

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

   • 1979, Kenneth J. Englund, "The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carbonfierous) Systems in the United States - Virginia", Page C-14, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1110

     The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age

3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
   • Bible, Rom. xii. 4

     We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office.

4. The penis.
5. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
6. (set theory) An element of a set.
7. (computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, a function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
8. (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
9. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
10. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.

Synonyms

• (limb): limb, lith
• (penis): penis, pintle
• (of a syllogism): premise, premiss
• (of a set): element

Derived terms

crewmember dismember

male member member of staff

membership

Descendants

• Japanese: メンバー

Translations

one who officially belongs to a group

• Arabic: عضو m (ʕúɖu)
• Asturian: miembru (ast) m
• Bashkir: ағза (ağza)
• Bengali: সদস্য
• Catalan: membre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會員, 会员 (zh) (huìyuán), 成員 (zh), 成员 (zh) (chéngyuán)

• Czech: člen (cs) m
• Danish: medlem (da) n
• Dutch: lid (nl) n
• Esperanto: membro (eo), ano (eo)
• Estonian: liige (et)
• Finnish: jäsen (fi)
• French: membre (fr) m
• Galician: membro (gl) m
• German: Mitglied (de) n
• Greek: μέλος (el) n (mélos)
• Hungarian: tag (hu)
• Icelandic: félagi (is) m
• Indonesian: anggota (id)
• Italian: membro (it) m
• Japanese: 会員 (ja) (かいいん, kaiin), メンバー (ja) (membā), 構成員 (こうせいいん, kōseiin)

• Jèrriais: membre m
• Korean: 회원 (ko) (hoeweon)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئه‌ندام, ئه‌ندام (ku)

• Latin: sodalis m
• Latvian: biedrs (lv) m, loceklis m
• Malay: ahli, anggota
• Maori: mema
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: medlem (no) n

  Nynorsk: medlem m

• Persian: عضو (fa) (ozv)
• Polish: członek (pl) m
• Portuguese: membro (pt) m
• Romanian: membru (ro) m
• Russian: член (ru) m (člen)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: члaн m

  Roman: član (sh) m

• Slovene: član (sl) m
• Spanish: miembro (es) m
• Swahili: mshiriki (sw)
• Swedish: medlem (sv) c
• Turkish: üye (tr), aza (tr)

a limb

• Arabic: عضو m (ʕúɖu)

  Egyptian Arabic: عضو m (ʕuḍu)

• Asturian: miembru (ast) m
• Bashkir: ағза (ağza)
• Catalan: membre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肢 (zh) (zhī)

• Czech: končetina (cs) f
• Dutch: lid (nl) n, ledemaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: korpoparto
• Finnish: jäsen (fi)
• French: membre (fr) m
• Galician: membro (gl) m
• German: Glied (de) n

• Greek: μέλος (el) n (mélos)
• Jèrriais: membre m
• Latvian: loceklis m
• Norwegian: lem (no) n
• Persian: اندام (fa) (andaam)
• Polish: członek (pl) m
• Portuguese: membro (pt) m
• Romanian: membru (ro), mădular (ro)
• Russian: член (ru) m (člen), часть тела (ru) f (čast’ téla)
• Slovene: ud m
• Spanish: miembro (es) m
• Swahili: mshiriki (sw)
• Swedish: lem (sv) c
• Turkish: uzuv (tr)

penis

• Asturian: miembru (ast) m
• Catalan: membre (ca) m, membre viril m
• Galician: membro (gl) m
• German: Glied (de) n
• Latin: membrum m

• Norwegian: lem (no) n
• Persian: اندام تناسلی مرد (andaam-e tanaasoli-e mard)
• Polish: członek (pl) m
• Russian: член (ru) m (chlen)
• Spanish: miembro (es) m, miembro viril m
• Swedish: manslem (sv) c, lem (sv) c

in logic — see premise

in set theory — see element

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• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 일원 (ko) (ilweon)

Etymology 2

See remember.

Verb

member (third-person singular simple present members, present participle membering, simple past and past participle membered)

1. (obsolete) To remember.
2. (obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛmbər]

Noun

member (plural members)

1. member