membership

Other forms of membership

plural

memberships·

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.

Questions about membership

What does membership mean?

membership means "the body of members of an organization or group". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in membership?

membership has 3 syllables: mem-ber-ship. The stress falls on "mem". In IPA it is /ˈmɛmbɚˌʃɪp/.

What is another word for membership?

Close synonyms include rank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is membership a common word?

membership is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with membership?

54 words rhyme with membership. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.