Member

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ˈmÉ›mbÉš/
• Rhymes: -É›mbÉ™(ɹ)

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

Full definition of member

Noun

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 1110The 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. 4We 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. (AU, 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. (math) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Descendants

• Japanese: メンバー

See remember.

Verb

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