subscribe

UK: /səbˈskraɪb/ US: /səbˈskraɪb/ ,(səb skrīb′)

Inflections of 'subscribe' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

subscribes

v 3rd person singular

subscribing

v pres p

subscribed

v past

subscribed

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

sub•scribe /səbˈskraɪb/   v., -scribed, -scrib•ing. 

1. Show Business to make a subscription to:
   [~ + to + object] to subscribe to a magazine.
2. to pay or pledge (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: [~ + object]
   to subscribe fifty dollars to the animal shelter fund.
   [no object]
   to subscribe to the animal shelter fund.
3. to agree or assent to:
   [~ + to + object] They don't subscribe to the notion that everyone is equal under the law.

sub•scrib•er, n. 

[countable] Subscribers to the newspaper were canceling their subscriptions in protest.

See -scrib-.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

sub•scribe  (səb skrīb′), v., -scribed, -scrib•ing. 
v.t. 

1. to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment:
   He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
2. to give or pay in fulfillment of such a pledge.
3. to append one's signature or mark to (a document), as in approval or attestation of its contents.
4. to attest by or as by signing.
5. to append, as one's signature, at the bottom of a document or the like;
   sign.
6. to agree or assent to.

v.i. 

7. to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay money as a contribution, gift, or investment.
8. to give or pay money in fulfillment of such a pledge.
9. Show Business to obtain a subscription to a magazine, newspaper, etc.
10. to give one's consent;
    sanction:
    I will not subscribe to popular fallacies.
11. to sign one's name to a document.
12. to give approval to the contents of a document by signing one's name.

• Latin subscrībere, equivalent. to sub- sub- + scrībere to write
• late Middle English subscriben 1375–1425

sub•scrib′a•ble, adj. 
sub•scrib′er•ship′, n. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

subscribe / səbˈskraɪb/ verb

1. (usually followed by to) to pay or promise to pay (a sum of money) as a contribution (to a fund or charity, for a magazine, etc), esp at regular intervals
2. to inscribe or sign (one's name, etc) at the end of a contract, will, or other document
3. (intransitive) followed by to: to give support or approval: to subscribe to the theory of transubstantiation
4. (intransitive) followed by to: to agree to receive information posted at a particular location on the internet: to subscribe to an online cookery channel

noun

1. an act or instance of subscribing, esp to an online service

Etymology: 15th Century: from Latin subscrībere to write underneath, from sub- + scrībere to write

subˈscriber noun