SUBSCRIBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subscriber mean? 

• SUBSCRIBER (noun)
  The noun SUBSCRIBER has 3 senses:

1. someone who expresses strong approval

2. someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication

3. someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money

  Familiarity information: SUBSCRIBER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSCRIBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who expresses strong approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

endorser; indorser; ratifier; subscriber

Hypernyms ("subscriber" is a kind of...):

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter (a person who backs a politician or a team etc.)

Derivation:

subscribe (adopt as a belief)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

reader; subscriber

Hypernyms ("subscriber" is a kind of...):

client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)

Derivation:

subscribe (receive or obtain regularly)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

contributor; subscriber

Hypernyms ("subscriber" is a kind of...):

bestower; conferrer; donor; giver; presenter (person who makes a gift of property)

Derivation:

subscribe (pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals)

 Context examples 

They like it when subscribers call them.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She became a subscriber; amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of books!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But I am sure that it will interest Mr. Horace Harker and the subscribers of the Central Press Syndicate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The local papers had taken it up, and daily there appeared columns of learned criticisms, facetious editorials, and serious letters from subscribers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This network, a cooperative agreement among the Children's Cancer Group, the Pediatric Oncology Group, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield System Association (BCBS) nationwide, will ensure that children of BCBS subscribers receive care at designated centers of cancer care excellence and may promote the enrollment of children in Cooperative Group clinical trials.

(Pediatric Cancer Care Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Warren's Monthly advertised to its subscribers that it was always on the quest after new writers, and that, among others, it had introduced Martin Eden to the reading public.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)