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membre

membre is the obsolete spelling of member.

Meaning of member

Noun

member (plural members)

  1. One who belongs to a group.
    • “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...”2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, →ISBN, page 109
  2. A part of a whole.
    • The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
    Synonyms:
    integrant
  3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
    • For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:4
    Synonyms:
    limb, lith
  4. (euphemistic) The penis.
    • If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 168
  5. One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
    Synonyms:
    premise, premiss
  6. An element of a set.
    Synonyms:
    element

See all 11 meanings of member

Forms of membre

pluralmembres

Questions about membre

What is membre the obsolete spelling of?
Membre is the obsolete spelling of member.

Words near membre in the dictionary

  1. membranously
  2. membranousness
  3. membranule
  4. membranules
  5. membranæ
  6. membre
  7. Membreno
  8. Membrenos
  9. membres
  10. membrification
  11. membrifications

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Adapted from Wiktionary: membre (page history and authors); member (page history and authors). 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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