mem

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

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. 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!) 👀💖 - 2020 August 19, @BRITs, Twitter:
    • 6. Throw Away the Mems [section title] ¶ Now that you’ve got some theme music, it’s time to take that old teddy bear and V-Day card and toss ‘em in the dumpster. - 2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a...
    • [Ashley] Palmer-Gilkey responded in the comments, “love you 🤍 cheers to more laughs, more trips, more skinny margs, more mems 💕.” - 2026 April 28, Carson Blackwelder, “How unlikely couple Dr. Dre and ‘The Valley’ star...
  2. A memory access as part of processing.

Origin

Clipping of memory.

Forms

mems

Related

mim-mem

Derived

memcomputer memcomputing

Noun South Asia, historical

  1. 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. - 2009, Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of...
  2. Alternative form of ma'am.

Origin

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

Forms

mems

Derived

gori mem

Noun Entry 3

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

Origin

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

Forms

mems meem mim

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. 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! - 1999 November 17, Jfaspen, “JOE HAMILTON FOR HEISMAN(nDMBc)”, in...
    • And that its^([sic]) not his cousin or grandma laying^([sic]) next to him (he said it was a family outing, I assume he meant other mems of his family and not just his imidiate^([sic]) family). - 2000 December 22, Matt,...
    • Great resource! It's going out to all mems of my band today. - 2003 April 10, Greg D, “Press Kits”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 Dec 2025:

Forms

mems