Meaning & use

subscribe

verb·Everyday

To arrange to regularly receive or pay for a publication, service, or product.

See it in a sentence

She subscribed to a monthly magazine about gardening and home design.

Thousands of viewers subscribed to the channel after the video went viral.

A note on using this word

'Subscribe to' can also mean to agree with an idea or belief, as in 'I don't subscribe to that theory.'

Words with a similar meaning

sign up

Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.

Words with an opposite meaning

unsubscribe

Another way to use it

2. verb

To agree with or support an opinion, belief, or theory.

Few economists actually subscribe to that particular explanation of the crash.

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