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say it: MEM-bur
member is a noun meaning "one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization)". It is pronounced /ˈmɛmbɚ/ — MEM-bur. It carries 5 recorded senses.
one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization)
“only members will be admitted”
“a member of the faculty”
“she was introduced to all the members of his family”
anything that belongs to a set or class
“snakes are members of the class Reptilia”
“members of the opposite sex”
an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations)
“the library was a member of the interlibrary loan association”
“Canada is a member of the United Nations”
the male sex organ (`member' is a euphemism)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for member come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.