membership

English

Etymology

From member +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

membership (countable and uncountable, plural memberships)

1. The state of being a member of a group or organization.

   The terms of membership agreement were vague.

   He has memberships in clubs in three cities.

2. The body of members of an organization.

   The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.

3. (mathematics) The fact of being a member of a set.

Derived terms

• e-membership
• membership card
• membership function
• membership marketing

 

Translations

fact of being a member

• Albanian: anëtarësi (sq) f
• Arabic: عُضْوِيَّة‎ f (ʕuḍwiyya)
• Armenian: անդամություն (hy) (andamutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: üzvlük
• Belarusian: чле́нства n (čljénstva)
• Bulgarian: чле́нство n (člénstvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會籍／会籍 (zh) (huìjí), 會員身份／会员身份 (huìyuán shēnfèn), 會員／会员 (zh) (huìyuán)

• Czech: členství (cs) n
• Danish: medlemskab (da) n
• Dutch: lidmaatschap (nl) n
• Esperanto: anaro (eo), membreco
• Estonian: liikmelisus
• Finnish: jäsenyys (fi)
• French: adhésion (fr) f, appartenance (fr) f, affiliation (fr) f
• Georgian: წევრობა (c̣evroba)
• German: Mitgliedschaft (de) f
• Greek: συμμετοχή ως μέλος f (symmetochí os mélos), συμμετοχή (el) f (symmetochí), ιδιότητα του μέλους f (idiótita tou mélous)
• Hebrew: חֲבֵרוּת‎ (he) f (khaverút)
• Hindi: सदस्यता (hi) f (sadasyatā)
• Hungarian: tagság (hu)
• Ido: membreso (io)
• Indonesian: keanggotaan (id)
• Irish: ballraíocht f, comhaltas m
• Italian: iscrizione (it) f, appartenenza (it) f
• Japanese: メンバーシップ (menbāshippu), 会員 (ja) (かいいん, kai'in)
• Kazakh: мүшелік (müşelık)
• Khmer: សមាជិកភាព (saʼmaacɨkphiəp)
• Korean: 회원(會員) (ko) (hoewon), 멤버십 (membeosip)
• Kumyk: ортакъчылыкъ (ortaqçılıq)
• Kyrgyz: мүчөлүк (ky) (müçölük)
• Lao: ສະມາຊິກະພາບ (sa mā si ka phāp)
• Latvian: piederība f, dalība f
• Lithuanian: narystė f
• Macedonian: членство n (členstvo)
• Malay: keahlian (ms)
• Malayalam: അംഗത്വം (aṅgatvaṁ)
• Maori: mematanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: medlemskap (no) n

  Nynorsk: medlemskap m or n

• Pashto: عضويت‎ (ps) m ('ozwiyat)
• Persian: عضویت‎ (fa) ('ozviyyat)
• Polish: członkostwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: associação (pt) f, sociedade (pt) f
• Romanian: apartenență (ro) f
• Russian: чле́нство (ru) n (člénstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: ballrachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чла̀нство n, члaнapинство n

  Roman: člànstvo (sh) n, članarinstvo n

• Slovak: členstvo n
• Slovene: članstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: membresía (es) f
• Swahili: uanachama
• Swedish: medlemskap (sv) n
• Tajik: узвият (uzviyat)
• Thai: สมาชิกภาพ (th) (sà-maa-chík-gà-pâap)
• Turkish: üyelik (tr)
• Turkmen: agzalyk
• Ukrainian: чле́нство n (člénstvo)
• Urdu: رُکْنِیَت‎ f (rukniyat), عُضْوِیَت‎ f ('uzviyat) (literary)
• Uyghur: ئەزالىق‎ (ezaliq)
• Uzbek: aʻzolik, azolik
• Vietnamese: số hội viên
• Yiddish: מיטגלידערשאַפֿט‎ f (mitglidershaft)

body of members

• Bulgarian: чле́нска ма́са f (člénska mása)
• Esperanto: membraro, membreco
• Finnish: jäsenistö (fi), jäsenkunta
• German: Mitgliederschaft f
• Greek: μέλη (el) n pl (méli)
• Irish: ballra m, na baill m pl
• Japanese: 会員 (ja) (かいいん, kai'in)
• Maori: rōpū mema
• Portuguese: membro (pt), corpo do membro

in set theory

• Danish: medlemskab (da)
• Finnish: kuuluminen (fi)
• French: appartenance (fr) f
• German: Zugehörigkeit (de) f
• Romanian: apartenență (ro) f
• Russian: принадле́жность (ru) f (prinadléžnostʹ)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 會員資格／会员资格, ^{(please verify)} 会员资格
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 회원 (ko) (hoewon)

Verb

membership (third-person singular simple present memberships, present participle membershipping, simple past and past participle membershipped)

1. (transitive, sociolinguistics) To classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community.
   • 1975 April, Malcolm Coulthard, “Discourse Analysis in English – A Short Review of the Literature”, in Language Teaching, volume 8, number 2, →DOI, page 83:

     Whatever the topic of the conversation the speaker must ‘membership’ his listener, put him into one of two or more mutually exclusive boxes. Each time a topic changes the listener must be re-membershipped, and during a conversation the same person may be membershipped as a doctor, a rugby player, a liberal, a gardener, a bridge player.