enroll

English

Alternative forms

• enrol (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland)

Etymology

From Middle English enrollen, from Old French enroller.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɹəʊl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈɹoʊl/, /ɪnˈɹoʊl/

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Verb

enroll (third-person singular simple present enrolls, present participle enrolling, simple past and past participle enrolled)

1. (transitive) To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
   • 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:

     All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.

   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ  , London: Matthew Simmons, , →OCLC:

     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.

2. (transitive) To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of

   They were eager to enroll new recruits.

3. (intransitive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)

   Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?

4. (obsolete, transitive) To envelop; to enwrap.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: 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:

     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, […]

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     enroll thy memorable name
     In th’ heart of every honourable dame

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XLII, page 65:

     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: […]

Synonyms

• (enter in a register): list, note, note down, record, register; see also Thesaurus:enlist
• (enlist): enlist, sign up, subscribe
• (become a member): enlist, join, join up, sign up, subscribe
• (join a class): add, register for (synonyms for “enroll in ”)

Derived terms

• enrollee
• enroller
• enrollment

Translations

Anagrams

• Noller