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# subscribe

«subscribe» in Mova's school dictionary: **To pay regularly to get something, such as a magazine, a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (subscribe, subscribes, subscribed, subscribing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To pay regularly to get something, such as a magazine, a streaming service or a newspaper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#m1)

2) To sign up to get updates, emails or videos from a channel or website, often for free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#m2)

3) (formal) To agree with or support an idea or belief: «I don't subscribe to that view». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#m3)

4) (formal) To give money regularly to a charity or club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children see «subscribe» on video channels and apps. Families subscribe to magazines or TV services, which costs money each month — a common maths problem: monthly cost × number of months. In formal writing «subscribe to an idea» means to believe it. Phrases: «subscribe to», «like and subscribe», «subscribe for free».

### examples

- We subscribe to a science magazine for kids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#x1)
- Dad subscribes to a music service for £10 a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#x2)
- Don't subscribe to anything online without asking a grown-up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#x3)
- (formal) I do not subscribe to the idea that maths is boring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#x4)
- Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#x5)
- If you subscribe for 12 months at $5 a month, you pay $60. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#x6)
- My cousin's channel has thousands of people who subscribe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#x7)
- Yes, how many tears I have wept in the fifty years I have subscribed to the theatre!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/#x8)

### note

Always «subscribe to» something. Noun: «subscription»; person: «subscriber». In maths, a subscription is a repeated payment: multiply the price by the number of months or weeks. Safety: subscriptions can keep charging money until you cancel, so check with an adult.

### In the corpora

- [And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.885/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «subscribe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subscribe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.