# member

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmɛmbə/ · frequency rank #677

## Definitions
1. One who belongs to a group.
2. A part of a whole.
3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
4. The penis.
5. One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
6. An element of a set.
7. the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
8. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
9. Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
10. A file stored within an archive file.
11. A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **meme** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/member-vs-meme)
- **meter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/member-vs-meter)
- **Meyer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/member-vs-meyer)
- **merger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/member-vs-merger)
- **memoir** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/member-vs-memoir)
- **mercer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/member-vs-mercer)
- **Messer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/member-vs-messer)
- **members** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/member-vs-members)
- **meer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meer-vs-member)
- **Meier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meier-vs-member)
- **meager** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meager-vs-member)
- **meaner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meaner-vs-member)
- **meeker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meeker-vs-member)
- **Meijer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meijer-vs-member)

## Common misspellings (9)
`emmber`, `mebmer`, `membber`, `memberr`, `membre`, `memebr`, `memmber`, `mmeber`, `mmember`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/member