membership
membership noun: the state of being a member of a group or organization.
Noun
membership (countable and uncountable, plural memberships)
- The state of being a member of a group or organization.
- The terms of membership agreement were vague.
- He has memberships in clubs in three cities.
- The body of members of an organization.
- The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.
- The fact of being a member of a set.
Verb
membership (third-person singular simple present memberships, present participle membershipping, simple past and past participle membershipped)
- To classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community.
- Whatever the topic of the conversation the speaker must ‘membership’ his listener, put him into one of two or more mutually exclusive boxes. Each time a topic changes the listener must be re-membershipped, and during a conversation the same person may be membershipped as a doctor, a rugby player, a...1975 April, Malcolm Coulthard, “Discourse Analysis in English – A Short Review of the Literature”, in Language Teaching, volume 8, number 2, →DOI, page 83
membership meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
membership in Hindi
- fact of being a member
- सदस्यता sadasyatā
membership in Tamil
- உறுப்பியம்
membership in Marathi
- सदस्यत्व
membership in Urdu
- fact of being a member
- رکنیت rukniyat, عضویت 'uzviyat
More languagesFewer languages
- membership in Bengali
- সদস্যতা, সভ্যপদ, সভ্যবর্গ, সদস্যবর্গ
- membership in Telugu
- సభ్యత్వము sabhyatvamu
- membership in Malayalam
- അംഗത്വം aṅgatvaṁ
- membership in Kannada
- ಸದಸ್ಯತ್ವ, ಸದಸ್ಯತ್ವವನ್ನು
- membership in Punjabi
- ਮੈਂਬਰੀ maimbrī
- membership in Gujarati
- સભ્યપદ
- membership in Odia
- ସଦସ୍ଯ଼ତା, ସଦସ୍ଯ଼ତ୍ୱ
- membership in Nepali
- सदस्यता, सदस्यत्व, सदस्यकरण
- membership in Pashto
- عضويت 'ozwiyat
- membership in Arabic
- عُضْوِيَّة ʕuḍwiyya
- membership in Malay
- keahlian
- membership in Indonesian
- keanggotaan
- membership in Persian
- عضویت 'ozviyyat
- membership in Thai
- สมาชิกภาพ sà-maa-chík-gà-pâap
- membership in Vietnamese
- số hội viên
Examples of membership in a sentence
- Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls:
- Whatever the topic of the conversation the speaker must ‘membership’ his listener, put him into one of two or more mutually exclusive boxes.1975 April, Malcolm Coulthard, “Discourse Analysis in English – A Short Review of the Literature”, in Language Teaching, volume 8, number...
Forms of membership
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | memberships |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | memberships |
| present participle | membershipping |
| past participle | membershipped |
| past | membershipped |
Origin of membership
From member + -ship.
Words formed from membership
Phrases with membership
Questions about membership
- What does membership mean?
- Membership means the state of being a member of a group or organization.
- What is membership in Hindi?
- Membership in Hindi is सदस्यता (sadasyatā). See Membership meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use membership in a sentence?
- Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.
- What part of speech is membership?
- Membership can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of membership?
- The plural of membership is memberships.
Words near membership in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: membership (page history and authors); membership (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); membership (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); membership (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); membership (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ਮੈਂਬਰੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); membership (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); membership (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); membership (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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