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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

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

Board mem bers expect the gross national product to increase 3.1% in 1983.

From Time Magazine Archive

It now has 471,000 mem bers, is growing at the rate of a new club every day.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Really, mem, I don't know enough about horses to say."

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)