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mem¹

  • /mɛm/

Rhymes with -ɛm

Where it comes from

From Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /⁠mem⁠/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *maʾ- (“*maʾ-/*may-”). Doublet of mu.

noun mems · meem · mim

  1. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

mem²

  • /mɛm/

Rhymes with -ɛm

Where it comes from

Clipping of memory.

noun mems

  1. abbreviation, clipping, slang Clipping of memory We can't BELIEVE it's been #9YearsofLittleMix?! Aside from the girls slaying every #BRITs look they've had, what's your fave mem? (we know it's a hard q!) 👀💖
  2. A memory access as part of processing.

mem³

  • /mɛm/

Rhymes with -ɛm

Where it comes from

From Hindi मेम (mem, “wife of a colonial official; a white woman”), originally from English ma'am.

noun mems

  1. South Asia, historical A white European woman, especially the wife of an official; a memsahib. With their husbands out all day, the mems had almost nothing to do, unless they were among the few prepared to interest themselves in local charities or community work.
  2. India, alternative Alternative form of ma'am

mem⁴

  • /mɛm/

Rhymes with -ɛm

noun mems

  1. abbreviation, clipping, slang Clipping of member Make him footrace Dayne and then block Dayne. Wait, then we would get 1/2 the amt of quality recording and lose a mem of the community!

MEM⁵

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Master of Engineering Management
  2. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Master of Environmental Management
  3. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of 2 or 5-Dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine All along he made drugs: 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine, or MEM for short, was his Rosetta stone, a "valuable and dramatic compound" that opened the door to a whole class of drugs based on changes at the "4 position" of a molecule's central carbon ring.
  4. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of β-Methoxyethoxymethyl ether, a protecting group in chemistry.
  5. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of monocular estimate method
  6. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of model exercise mode

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noun Semitic letter

Françaismém, mem
Italianomem
עבריתמֵם

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"mem." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mem. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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mem. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mem

Chicago

"mem." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mem.

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@misc{mem_2026,
  title = {mem},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mem},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}