English Online Dictionary. What means subscribe? What does subscribe mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere. Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /səbˈskɹaɪb/
- Rhymes: -aɪb
Verb
subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)
- (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
- To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.
- To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].
- To pay money to be a member of an organization.
- (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
- (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
- (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
- (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
- (archaic outside law) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
- (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
- (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
- (obsolete, transitive) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
- (intransitive) To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.
- (intransitive, programming) To register for notifications about an event or similar.
Synonyms
- sign up
- underwrite
Derived terms
Translations
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sʊpˈskriː.bɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [subˈskriː.be]
Verb
subscrībe
- second-person singular present active imperative of subscrībō
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /subsˈkɾibe/ [suβ̞sˈkɾi.β̞e]
- Rhymes: -ibe
- Syllabification: subs‧cri‧be
Verb
subscribe
- inflection of subscribir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative