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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun member has 5 senses
- member(n = noun.person) fellow member - one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization); "only members will be admitted"; "a member of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of his family" has particulars: areopagite, brother, cabalist, charter member, commissioner, committee member, council member, councillor, conservative, fellow, homeboy, homegirl, huddler, inductee, joiner, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, board member, clan member, clansman, clanswoman, club member, pledge, rosicrucian, rosicrucian, rotarian, sister, sodalist, tribesman
- member(n = noun.linkdef) Array - anything that belongs to a set or class; "snakes are members of the class Reptilia"; "members of the opposite sex" is a kind of component, component part, constituent, part, portion
- member(n = noun.body) appendage, extremity - an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm" has particulars: chelicera, mouthpart, fang, chela, claw, nipper, pincer, parapodium, fin, pleopod, swimmeret, limb, dactyl, digit
- member(n = noun.group) Array - an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations); "the library was a member of the interlibrary loan association"; "Canada is a member of the United Nations" is a kind of social unit, unit
- member(n = noun.body) penis, phallus - the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism); Array has parts: glans penis, vena bulbi penis, urethra, foreskin, prepuce
is a kind of associate
Derived forms noun membership1, noun membership2
Antonym: nonmember
Derived forms noun membership1, noun membership2
is a kind of external body part
Derived form noun membership2
is a part of male reproductive system, family jewels, male genital organ, male genitalia, male genitals
is a kind of erectile organ
has particulars: cock, dick, pecker, peter, prick, putz, shaft, tool, micropenis, microphallus
CIDE DICTIONARY
member, v. t. [See Remember.].
To remember; to cause to remember; to mention. [1913 Webster]
member, n. [OE. membre, F. membre, fr. L. membrum; cf. Goth. mimz flesh, Skr. mamsa.].
- A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. [1913 Webster]"We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office." [1913 Webster]
- A part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
member, n.
1 a person belonging to a society, team, etc.
2 (Member) a person formally elected to take part in the proceedings of certain organizations (Member of Parliament; Member of Congress).
3 (also attrib.) a part or branch of a political body (member State; a member of the EEC).
4 a constituent portion of a complex structure.
5 a part of a sentence, equation, group of figures, mathematical set, etc.
6 a any part or organ of the body, esp. a limb. b = PENIS.
7 used in the title awarded to a person admitted to (usu. the lowest grade of) certain honours (Member of the British Empire).
1 a person belonging to a society, team, etc.
2 (Member) a person formally elected to take part in the proceedings of certain organizations (Member of Parliament; Member of Congress).
3 (also attrib.) a part or branch of a political body (member State; a member of the EEC).
4 a constituent portion of a complex structure.
5 a part of a sentence, equation, group of figures, mathematical set, etc.
6 a any part or organ of the body, esp. a limb. b = PENIS.
7 used in the title awarded to a person admitted to (usu. the lowest grade of) certain honours (Member of the British Empire).
Derivative
membered adj. (also in comb.). memberless adj.
Etymology
ME f. OF membre f. L membrum limb
THESAURUS
member
Greek, affiliate, appendage, arm, associate, belonger, bough, branch, brother, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, charter member, clubber, clubman, clubwoman, colleague, committeeman, comrade, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, cut, division, dues-paying member, enlistee, enrollee, fellow, fraternity man, guildsman, hand, honorary member, imp, initiate, insider, joiner, joint, leg, life member, limb, link, lobe, lobule, moiety, offshoot, one of us, organ, parcel, piece, pinion, pledge, portion, ramification, runner, scion, section, segment, sister, socius, sorority girl, sorority woman, spray, sprig, spur, switch, tail, tendril, twig, wingROGET THESAURUS
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Part
N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.Component
N component, component part, integral part, integrant part, element, constituent, ingredient, leaven, part and parcel, contents, appurtenance, feature, member, personnel, forming, inclusive.Council
N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.
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