Dictionary

enroll en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈɹoʊl/ (Canada, US)
• /ɪnˈɹəʊl/ (UK)
• audio Queensland
• /ɛnˈɹoʊl/ (Canada, US)
• /ɪnˈɹəʉl/ (Australia)
• (California) audio

Etymology

From Middle English enrollen, from Anglo-Norman enroller; by surface analysis, en- + roll.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
   • An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
   • All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
2. (transitive) To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.
   • They were eager to enroll new recruits.
3. (intransitive, reflexive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
   • Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
4. (intransitive, reflexive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something). ▸ To register as a member of an educational institution.
5. (US, intransitive, reflexive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something). ▸ To register for a class or course of study.
   • Rather than stopping her education, she enrolled in a GED program so she could go to college. 2026 July 16, Nicholas Muhoro, “Inside the 2004 Brianna Maitland Case: One of Vermont’s Most Haunting Mysteries”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2026:
6. (Australia, New-Zealand, intransitive, reflexive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something). ▸ To register to vote.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To envelop; to enwrap.
   • So then were nothing lost to man; ⁠So that still garden of the souls ⁠In many a figured leaf enrolls The total world since life began: […] 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 65:
   • enroll thy memorable name In th’ heart of every honourable dame 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire, And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts, Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes, Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […] c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
8. (intransitive) To curl up into a ball.
   • Many trilobites (e.g.37), including Ampyx priscus (Supplementary Fig. 11) had the capacity to enroll as do modern terrestrial isopods when threatened. 2019 October 17, Jean Vannier et al., “Collective behaviour in 480-million-year-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco”, in Scientific Reports:

Forms

Deriveds

overenrolled · enrollable · unenroll · enrollee · enrollment · nonenrolled · unenrolled · disenroll · reenroll · enroller

Synonyms

join · list · record · enlist · sign up · join up · enscroll · join · sign up · subscribe · enroll · put on · register · add · note · put down · join up · join · induct · note down · join up · enlist · join up · sign up · register · catalogue · subscribe · join · enlist · subscribe · tabulate · enlist · sign up · enlist · subscribe · sign up · enlist · subscribe

Translations (74)

ru регистри́ровать (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · it reclutare (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · grc ἐγγράφω (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · pl rejestrować się (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · ca inscriure (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · it iscriversi (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · fr s'inscrire (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · da indskrive (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · pt inscrever-se (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · fi ilmoittautua (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · de (als Mitglied) aufnehmen (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · az yazdırmaq (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · de immatrikulieren (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · fr s'enrôler (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · pt alistar (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · de sich immatrikulieren (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · el εγγράφομαι (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · gl inscribirse (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · ja 登録する (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · el εγγράφω (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · te చేర్చు (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · pl zapisywać się (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · nl inschrijven (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · da tilmelde (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · mi whakatapoko (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · sv rekruttere (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · de einschreiben (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · es enrolar (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · az yazılmaq (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · ru запи́сываться (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · de (jmd.) rekrutieren (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · ca enrolar (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · ru зарегистри́роваться (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · fr enrôler (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · ru записа́ться (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · es enrolar (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · ca matricular (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · de (jmd., etw.) listen (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · fi värvätä (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · de (jmd.) eintragen (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · sv skriva in sig (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · da indmelde (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · ru записа́ть (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · pl zarejestrować się (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · gl anotarse (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · cmn 註冊 /注册 (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · ota یازمق (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · ru регистри́роваться (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · fi kirjoittautua (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · kk тіркелу (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · sv rekrytera (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · ru запи́сывать (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · gl matricularse (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · kk жазылу (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · pl zapisać się (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · mi whakauru (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · bg вербувам (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · ru зарегистри́ровать (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · te చేరు (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · mi whakauru (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · izh kirjutaissa (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · la conscrībō (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · pt inscrever (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · got 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · kix thǖkhúa (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · bg регистрирам (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · mi whakatapoko (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · cy aelodi (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · af inskryf (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · de anmelden (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · ota یازمق (to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of) · bg записвам (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · pt matricular-se (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list) · gl apuntarse (to enter (a name) in a register, roll or list)