subscribe
Other forms: subscribed; subscribing; subscribes
If you subscribe to something, you sign up to receive it regularly. If you subscribe to the New York Times, it's delivered to your door every morning or you get online access.
When you subscribe to a belief, you adopt it as your own. You might subscribe to the notion that children should be seen and not heard, or you might wholeheartedly subscribe to your town's proposal to save the wetlands. A less common use of subscribe is to sign your name on something, reflecting the origin of the word, which comes from the Latin subscribere, "to write below," that is, to sign at the bottom of a document.
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pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals
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mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
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offer to buy, as of stocks and shares
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receive or obtain regularlysynonyms: subscribe to, take
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adopt as a belief
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Vocabulary lists containing subscribe
Learn these words beginning with the power prefix "sub-" (meaning "below" or "under"). More Power Prefix lists: anti-, con-, fore-, inter-, mis-, pre-, super-, trans-, and uni-! ELA Common Core State Standard: "Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word."
Whether you scribble or inscribe, in print or in script, you employ a form of the Latin verb "scribere," meaning to write. Below are descriptions and examples of how these words are used.
In this comedy, a wealthy lord refuses to allow his younger daughter to marry unless her willful older sister gets married first.