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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

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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

His prime stipulation for peace: the workers' right to remain mem bers of the A. F. of L.'s textile union.

From Time Magazine Archive

Possibly to erase any mem ory of the three hours spent in The Wom en's Room the night before.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then upon them all broke the little maid with a husky "Miss Beaminster's carriage, please, mem."

From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Sir Hugh Walpole

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 George Cary Eggleston

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

The information wanted is parentage and descent of John Pierrepont of Wadworth, who in a family mem. by his great-great-granddaughter is called "Uncle to Evelyn, Earl of P."

From Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

Frances Dana, 61; 294; mem. serv., 409-10;trib. of Clara Barton, 429; 614.Gage,

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper

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

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

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