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  mem

  noun

  the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
• mem.
  mem.

  abbreviation

  member.

mem

¹ American  

[mem] / mɛm /

noun

1. the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.

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mem. ² American  

abbreviation

1. member.

2. memoir.

3. memorandum.

4. memorial.

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mem British  

/ mɛm /

noun

1. the 13th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (מ or, at the end of a word, ם), transliterated as m

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Etymology

Origin of mem

1895–1900; < Hebrew mēm, akin to mayim water

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

mem mem.

Mem, mem, mem,’ ” she wrote in a preface to an excerpt from the eventual memoir, “The Shadow Factory,” in The American Scholar.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2015

So that might explain why mem was so bored at Ibrox...

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2010

As the last pieces of the six -week reconstruction job were put in place, the team mem bers found themselves staring into the empty sockets of a highly evolved hominid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Economist Henry Kaufman expects the discount rate, the price the Federal Reserve charges mem ber banks for loans, to rise a full percent age point in the next two months.

From Time Magazine Archive

O mem," said Thomas, "if the like o' me durst say it, she needna hae far to gang, to find a hame and a heart too.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

And at the last moment I could not make out what I had written on my wristband as a mem. for speech.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 by Various

But, mem., there is another well that turnes, I thinke, as deep as J. Sumner's.

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John

I took out my pocket-book and said, 'I'll make a mem. of it now.'

From Fated to Be Free by Ingelow, Jean

I came here to the bank and got it, putting the mem. into the cash box in its stead, as there were none of the bank's officers or clerks here to take my check.

From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by Eggleston, George Cary

There won't be no shaking of that, because I have it in my mem. book, and no Counsel can get the better of it.

From He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony