Mem
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- 2 Clipping of memory. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
"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!) 👀💖"
- 3 A white European woman, especially the wife of an official; a memsahib. South-Asia, historical
"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."
- 4 Clipping of member. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
"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!"
- 5 Initialism of Master of Engineering Management. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
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- 6 the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet wordnet
- 7 A memory access as part of processing.
- 8 Alternative form of ma'am. India, alt-of, alternative
- 9 Initialism of Master of Environmental Management. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 10 Abbreviation of 2 or 5-Dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
"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."
- 11 Abbreviation of β-Methoxyethoxymethyl ether, a protecting group in chemistry. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- 12 Initialism of monocular estimate method. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 13 Initialism of model exercise mode. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Example
More examples"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!) 👀💖"
Etymology
From Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *maʾ- (“*maʾ-/*may-”). Doublet of mu.
Clipping of memory.
From Hindi मेम (mem, “wife of a colonial official; a white woman”), originally from English ma'am.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.