English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From member -ship
Pronunciation [ edit ] membership (countable and uncountable plural memberships
The state of being a member of a group or organization.
The terms of membership agreement were vague.
He has memberships in clubs in three cities.
The body of members of an organization.
The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.
( mathematics ) The fact of being a member of a set .Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] fact of being a member
Albanian: anëtarësi (sq) f
Arabic: عُضْوِيَّة f ( ʕuḍwiyya )
Armenian: անդամություն (hy) ( andamutʿyun )
Azerbaijani: üzvlük
Belarusian: чле́нства n ( čljénstva )
Bulgarian: чле́нство n ( člénstvo )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 會籍 ／ 会籍 (zh) ( huìjí ) , 會員 身份 ／ 会员 身份 ( huìyuán shēnfèn ) , 會員 ／ 会员 (zh) ( huìyuán )
Czech: členství (cs) n
Danish: medlemskab (da) n
Dutch: lidmaatschap (nl) n
Esperanto: anaro (eo) , membreco
Estonian: liikmelisus
Finnish: jäsenyys (fi)
French: adhésion (fr) f appartenance (fr) f affiliation (fr) f
Georgian: წევრობა ( c̣evroba )
German: Mitgliedschaft (de) f
Greek: συμμετοχή ως μέλος f ( symmetochí os mélos ) , συμμετοχή (el) f ( symmetochí ) , ιδιότητα του μέλους f ( idiótita tou mélous )
Hebrew: חֲבֵרוּת (he) f ( khaverút )
Hindi: सदस्यता (hi) f ( sadasyatā )
Hungarian: tagság (hu)
Ido: membreso (io)
Indonesian: keanggotaan (id)
Irish: ballraíocht f comhaltas m
Italian: iscrizione (it) f appartenenza (it) f
Japanese: メンバーシップ ( menbāshippu ) , 会員 (ja) ( かいいん, kai'in )
Kazakh: мүшелік ( müşelık )
Khmer: សមាជិកភាព ( saʼmaacɨkphiəp )
Korean: 회원(會員) (ko) ( hoewon ) , 멤버십 ( membeosip )
Kumyk: ортакъчылыкъ ( ortaqçılıq )
Kyrgyz: мүчөлүк (ky) ( müçölük )
Lao: ສະມາຊິກະພາບ ( sa mā si ka phāp )
Latvian: piederība f dalība f
Lithuanian: narystė f
Macedonian: членство n ( členstvo )
Malay: keahlian (ms)
Malayalam: അംഗത്വം ( aṅgatvaṁ )
Maori: mematanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: medlemskap (no) n
Nynorsk: medlemskap m or n
Pashto: عضويت (ps) m ( 'ozwiyat )
Persian: عضویت (fa) ( 'ozviyyat )
Polish: członkostwo (pl) n
Portuguese: associação (pt) f sociedade (pt) f
Romanian: apartenență (ro) f
Russian: чле́нство (ru) n ( člénstvo )
Scottish Gaelic: ballrachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: чла̀нство n члaнapинство n
Roman: člànstvo (sh) n članarinstvo n
Slovak: členstvo n
Slovene: članstvo (sl) n
Spanish: membresía (es) f
Swahili: uanachama
Swedish: medlemskap (sv) n
Tajik: узвият ( uzviyat )
Thai: สมาชิกภาพ (th) ( sà-maa-chík-gà-pâap )
Turkish: üyelik (tr)
Turkmen: agzalyk
Ukrainian: чле́нство n ( člénstvo )
Urdu: رُکْنِیَت f ( rukniyat ) , عُضْوِیَت f ( 'uzviyat ) ( literary )
Uyghur: ئەزالىق ( ezaliq )
Uzbek: aʻzolik azolik
Vietnamese: số hội viên
Yiddish: מיטגלידערשאַפֿט f ( mitglidershaft )
Translations to be checked
membership (third-person singular simple present memberships present participle membershipping simple past and past participle membershipped
( transitive , sociolinguistics ) To classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community .
1975 Language Teaching →DOI 83 :Whatever the topic of the conversation the speaker must ‘membership ’ his listener, put him into one of two or more mutually exclusive boxes. Each time a topic changes the listener must be re-membershipped, and during a conversation the same person may be membershipped as a doctor, a rugby player, a liberal, a gardener, a bridge player.
