membership
Forms
- Plural
- memberships
- present (v1)
- membership
- past (v2)
- membershipped
- past participle (v3)
- membershipped
- present participle
- membershipping
- 3rd person singular
- memberships
Definitions
1.The state of being a member of a group or organization.
- He has memberships in clubs in three cities.
- The terms of membership agreement were vague.
- Hence there resulted a division of the membership of the brotherhood into two classes, the practical and theoretic, or, as they are more commonly called, the operative and speculative, or “domatic” and “geomatic."
2.The body of members of an organization.
- The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.
3.The fact of being a member of a set.
1.To classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3449
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
Etymology tree
English member
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English membership
From member + -ship.