| chaplain |
a member of the clergy who leads religious services and does counseling for a military unit, a hospital, or other group. |
| Cherokee |
a member of a Native American people that used to live in the southeastern United States. The Cherokee now live mostly in Oklahoma and also in North Carolina. |
| Cheyenne |
a member of a Native American people that now lives in Montana and Oklahoma. [1/2 definitions] |
| Christian |
being a member of or following this religion. [2/4 definitions] |
| citizen |
a person who is a member of a country either because of being born there or being declared a member by law. [1/2 definitions] |
| clergyman |
a member of the clergy. |
| colonist |
a person who lives in or is a member of a colony. [2 definitions] |
| commissioner |
a member of a commission. [1/2 definitions] |
| commoner |
a person who is not a member of the nobility. |
| common noun |
a noun that indicates a class of things or a general member of a class of things, people, or places. Common nouns usually have articles. (Compare with "proper noun.") |
| confederate |
a member of a group or confederacy; ally. [1/4 definitions] |
| confirmation |
a ceremony that makes a person a member of a church or other religious organization. [1/3 definitions] |
| congressman |
(often capitalized) a male member of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| congresswoman |
(often capitalized) a female member of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| conservative |
(capitalized) a member of a conservative party. [1/6 definitions] |
| Creek |
a member of a group of American Indian peoples formed from groups who lived in Alabama and Georgia, but are now mostly in Oklahoma. |
| Cub Scout |
a member of the junior section of the Boy Scouts of America. Boys between ages eight and eleven can be Cub Scouts. |
| deacon |
a member of certain Christian churches who has a set of church duties but is not a member of the clergy. [1/2 definitions] |
| democrat |
(capitalized) a member of the Democratic Party of the United States. [1/2 definitions] |
| designated hitter |
a member of an American League baseball team who is chosen at the beginning of a game to bat in place of the pitcher. |
| distributive property |
in mathematics, a characteristic of numbers that allows you to multiply a group of numbers and get the same answer you would get if you multiplied each member of the group and then combined the answers. For example, 4 x (8 + 1 + 5) is equal to (4 x 8) + (4 x 1) + (4 x 5). |