member
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
member/ˈmembə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person, country, or organization that has joined a group, society, or team.
■ a person, animal, or plant that belongs to a particular group.
■ (Member) a person formally elected to certain legislative bodies.
■ used in the title awarded to a person admitted to certain honours.
- 2 a constituent piece of a complex structure.
■ a part of a sentence, equation, etc.
- 3 archaic a part of the body, especially a limb.
■ (also male member) a man's penis.
– derivatives
-membered adjective (chiefly Chemistry).
-membered adjective (chiefly Chemistry).
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. membrum ‘limb’.
'member' also found in these Oxford entries:
Abbasid
- Abkhaz
- Abnaki
- academician
- Achaemenid
- Achinese
- Acholi
- active service
- additional member system
- Adivasi
- Adventist
- advowson
- Adyghe
- Afar
- affiliate
- Ainu
- aircrew
- airman
- Akali
- Akan
- alderman
- Aleut
- Algonquin
- Almohad
- Almoravid
- alto
- AM
- Amazon
- American Indian
- Amhara
- among
- Anasazi
- anchorman
- Angle
- Anglican
- anthozoan
- Apache
- apparatchik
- Arab
- Aramaean
- Arapaho
- Araucanian
- Arawak
- aristocrat
- Arrernte
- Aryan
- ascarid
- Ashanti
- assassin
- astatine

