Word Meanings - MEMBERSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEMBERSHIP)
- Association
- Union
- connection
- conjunction
- contortment
- companionship
- alliance
- familiarity
- community
- membership
- society
- company
- denomination
- partnership
- fellowship
- fraternity
- friendship
Related words: (words related to MEMBERSHIP)
- ASSOCIATION
1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is - ASSOCIATIONIST
One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill. - UNIONISTIC
Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union. - FELLOWSHIP
1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. - FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak. - FRIENDSHIP
1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no - DENOMINATIONAL
Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. "Denominational differences." Buckle. - DENOMINATION
1. The act of naming or designating. 2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or - CONJUNCTIONAL
Relating to a conjunction. - ASSOCIATIONISM
The doctrine or theory held by associationists. - PARTNERSHIP
A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on - MEMBERSHIP
1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society. - SOCIETY
1. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." Milton. There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Byron. 2. Connection; participation; - COMMUNITY
1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing. 2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, - ALLIANCE
1. The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; - FAMILIARITY
1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another - ASSOCIATIONAL
1. Of or pertaining to association, or to an association. 2. Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists. - DENOMINATIONALISM
A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination. - CONJUNCTION
The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6. Note: Heavenly bodies are said to be in conjunction when they - DENOMINATIONALLY
In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect. - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - INTERCOMMUNION
Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber. - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance. - REUNION
1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a - TRUST COMPANY
Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business. - DISCONNECTION
The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke. - BENEFIT SOCIETY
A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain. - NONUNIONIST
One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union. - EXCOMMUNION
. A shutting out from communion; excommunication. Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton. - DELTA CONNECTION
One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit. - NONMEMBERSHIP
State of not being a member. - DISFELLOWSHIP
To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart. - NONUNION
1. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunoin carpenter. 2. Not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor. --Non*un"ion*ism , n.