Dictionary

subscriber en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Latin subscrīberebor. Middle English subscriben English subscribe Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English subscriber From subscribe + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.
   • Our magazine has over ten thousand subscribers.
   • The aim is to better appeal to the varied interests of Netflix’s sprawling subscriber base. […] “All signs point to Netflix having reached escape velocity, with subscribers scaling far faster than investors expected,” Mr. Greenfield said. 2024 April 18, Nicole Sperling, Benjamin Mullin, “Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2024:
2. A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.
   • An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers. 2013, Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications, page 175:
3. A person undersigned.
   • Near-synonyms: signatory, signer

Forms

Deriveds

subscriber bell · nonsubscriber · unsubscriber · digital subscriber line · subscribership · subscriber trunk dialling · oversubscriber · asymmetric digital subscriber line

Synonyms

signer · undersigned · signatory

Translations (79)

pt inscrita (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ru подпи́счик (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · tr abone (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · hu előfizető (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · de Abonnentin (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · cmn 訂閱者 /订阅者 (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · mhr абонемент (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ca subscriptora (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · sv prenumerant (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · be падпісчык (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · nb abonnent (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · crh abonent (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ja 購読者 (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ru абоне́нтка (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ia subscriptor (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · cy tanysgrifiwr (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · mk абоне́нт (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · az abunəçi (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · hy բաժանորդ (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · pl abonentka (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · es suscriptor (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · es subscriptor (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · hil umalamot (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · he מָנוּי (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · la subscrīptor (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · is áskrifandi (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · gl subscritora (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · es suscriptora (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · yi אַבאָנענט (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ca subscriptor (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · af intekenare (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · be падпісчыца (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · uk передпла́тниця (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · af intekenaar (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ja 加入者 (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · sh прѐтплатнӣк (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · fr abonné (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · pt assinante (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · mi kaiohauru (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ms pelanggan (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · gl subscritor (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · it abbonato (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · nn abonnent (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ru подпи́счица (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · uk передпла́тник (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ko 구독자 (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · cmn 訂戶 /订户 (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · pl subskrybent (YouTube) (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · pl abonent (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ro subscriber (YouTube) (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · eo abonanto (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · hy աբոնենտ (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · de Bezieher (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ba яҙылыусы (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · kmr abone (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · uk підписник (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ca abonat (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · sh прѐтплатница (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · sv abonnent (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ca abonada (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · sh prètplatnīk (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · pt subscritora (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · de Abonnent (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · de Bezieherin (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · mk пре́тплатник (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · pt subscritor (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ota آبونه (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ro abonat (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · pt inscrito (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ru абоне́нт (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · cmn 用戶 /用户 (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · bg абона́т (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · it iscritto (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · sh prètplatnica (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ga foscríobhaí (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · es abonado (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · uk підписниця (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · fi tilaaja (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service) · ko 가입자 (a person who subscribes to a publication or a service)