member
/ˈmɛm.bɚ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.18 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The penis.
noun
One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
Example Sentences
- "“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...”"
- "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"
- "For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:"
- "If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty."
- "The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members."
Etymology
From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus. Coexists with native limb, from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”). Mostly displaced lith (“limb, joint, member”), from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”), which still survives in British dialect.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɛm.bɚ/
- British English: /ˈmɛm.bə/