subscription

1. 1.

   a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time

   Broaderpayment
2. 2.

   agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name

   Broaderagreement
3. 3.

   a pledged contribution

   Broadercontribution
4. 4.

   the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document)

   “the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature”

   Broaderhandwriting

   Narrowerexecution

Other forms of subscription

plural

subscriptions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about subscription

What does subscription mean?

subscription means "a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subscription?

subscription has 3 syllables: sub-scrip-tion. The stress falls on "scrip". In IPA it is /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/.

Is subscription a common word?

subscription is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with subscription?

7 words rhyme with subscription. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.