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Member   /mˈɛmbər/   Listen
Member

noun
1.
One of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization).  Synonym: fellow member.  "A member of the faculty" , "She was introduced to all the members of his family"
2.
Anything that belongs to a set or class.  "Members of the opposite sex"
3.
An external body part that projects from the body.  Synonyms: appendage, extremity.
4.
An organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations).  "Canada is a member of the United Nations"
5.
The male organ of copulation ('member' is a euphemism).  Synonyms: penis, phallus.



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"Member" Quotes from Famous Books



... known his resolution, than the troops began to march, and with a chearfulness and alacrity, which shewed they had no will but that of their king:—indeed he seemed the soul of this mighty body, of which every single man was a member, and actuated ...
— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood

... placed member of the Belgian Government. I was told on best authority he was specially requested to go," ...
— The Rider in Khaki - A Novel • Nat Gould

... hot dusk of a summer's day a green touring-car, swinging out of the East Drive, pulled up smartly, trembling, at the edge of the Fifty-ninth Street car-tracks, then more sedately, under the dispassionate but watchful eye of a mounted member of the Traffic Squad, lurched across the Plaza and merged itself in the press of vehicles south-bound on ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance

... I put them on the floor again. The next intruder piled them on the billiard-table without a word. I was profoundly moved, profoundly interested. So I set the trap again. Also again, & again, & yet again—all day long. I caught every member of the family, & every servant; also I caught the three finest intellects in the town. In every instance old, time-worn automatic habit got in its work so promptly that the thinking apparatus ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... General Meeting of the Magazine department of the Guild because she honestly wished her journal to be a representative organ for the whole of the Lower School. A member of each Form was on the Committee, but she thought suggestions would probably be offered by others, and could then be discussed and settled by popular vote. At four o'clock on the Friday afternoon all the Juniors flocked to the dressing-room, for there was a whisper ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil


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