MEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mem mean? 

• MEM (noun)
  The noun MEM has 1 sense:

1. the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

  Familiarity information: MEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mem" is a kind of...):

alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)

Holonyms ("mem" is a member of...):

Hebraic alphabet; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew script (a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino))

 Context examples 

I loved her—and I love the mem'ry of her—too deep—to be able to lead her to believe of my own self as I'm a happy man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)