member

UK /ˈmɛmbə/ US /ˈmɛmbɚ/

noun 5verb 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

key, leading, powerful, prominent | junior, senior | long-serving, long-standing, long-time | board, club, committee, crew, family, group, party, staff, team, union

individual

Each individual member of the club gets a welcome package when they join.

founder

active, enthusiastic

He has been an enthusiastic member of the tennis club for many years.

honorary | full | associate

life

After paying a large fee, she became a life member of the golf club.

paid-up

She became a paid-up member of the golf club after paying her annual fees.

VERB + MEMBER

become | resign as

MEMBER + VERB

join sth | resign

MEMBER + NOUN

country, nation, state

PHRASES

a member of staff

The new member of staff started working in our office last Monday.

PREP

~ of

She is a member of the school's jazz band and performs at concerts twice a month.

Definitions

noun

One who belongs to a group.

“Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”

A part of a whole.

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

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

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

For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:

The penis.

If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty.

One of the propositions making up a syllogism.

verb

Pronunciation spelling of remember.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the male sex organ (`member' is a euphemism)

noun — an external body part that projects from the body

Antonyms

nonmember

Idioms & Phrases

member for Barkshire

A person who has a cough which causes them to sound as if they are barking.

Example Bank

“Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

Every member of the cabinet was present.

Tatoeba · #21661

Each member has to pay a membership fee.

Tatoeba · #21758

Each member has to pay 10,000 yen a month.

Tatoeba · #21759

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, member is marked as obsolete, euphemistic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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