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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

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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

He has his characters read these from day to day and paste them into a scrapbook for little Manuel, the baby son of two cell mem bers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Not hurt a mossle, mem, so they says.

From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn

Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. ii. mem. i. subs.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

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

From Fated to Be Free by Jean Ingelow

He made a mental mem. to laugh when his visitor had retired.

From The Pothunters by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Com. on Raw Materials, Minerals and Metals, also commr. in charge of purchasing for the War Industries Bd., and mem. commn. in charge of all purchases for the Allies; apptd. chmn.

From The Mirrors of Washington by John Kirby

City of New York, 1889; mem. of New York Stock Exchange many yrs.; apptd.,

From The Mirrors of Washington by John Kirby