subscriber

English

Etymology

subscribe +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)

Noun

subscriber (plural subscribers)

1. A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.

   Our magazine has over ten thousand subscribers.

2. (programming) A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.
   • 2013, Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications (page 175)

     An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers.

Derived terms

• subscriber trunk dialling

Translations

a person who subscribes to a publication or a service

• Armenian: բաժանորդ (hy) (bažanord), աբոնենտ (hy) (abonent)
• Azerbaijani: abunəçi
• Bashkir: яҙылыусы (yaðïlïwsï)
• Bulgarian: абона́т (bg) m (abonát)
• Catalan: subscriptor m, subscriptora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 訂閱者 (zh), 订阅者 (zh) (dìngyuèzhě) (periodical), 訂戶 (zh), 订户 (zh) (dìnghù) (periodical), 用戶 (zh), 用户 (zh) (service)

• Crimean Tatar: abonent
• Esperanto: abonanto
• Finnish: tilaaja (fi)
• French: abonné (fr) m
• Galician: subscritor m, subscritora f
• German: Abonnent (de) m, Abonnentin (de) f, Bezieher (de) m, Bezieherin (de) f
• Hiligaynon: umalamot
• Hungarian: előfizető (hu)
• Icelandic: áskrifandi (is) m
• Interlingua: subscriptor
• Irish: foscríobhaí m
• Italian: iscritto (it), abbonato (it)
• Japanese: 購読者 (こうどくしゃ, kōdokusha) (periodical), 加入者 (かにゅうしゃ, kanyūsha) (telephone)
• Korean: 구독자(購讀者) (ko) (gudokja), 가입자(加入者) (ko) (gaipja)

• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: abone (ku)

• Latin: subscrīptor m
• Macedonian: абонент m (abonent)
• Malay: pelanggan
• Maori: kaiohauru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: abonnent (no) m

  Nynorsk: abonnent m

• Ottoman Turkish: آبونه‎ (âbone)
• Polish: abonent (pl) m, abonentka (pl) f, subskrybent m (YouTube)
• Portuguese: assinante m or f, subscritor (pt) m, subscritora f
• Russian: подпи́счик (ru) m (podpísčik), подпи́счица (ru) f (podpísčica) (periodical), абоне́нт (ru) m (abonént), абоне́нтка (ru) f (abonéntka) (service)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прѐтплатнӣк m, прѐтплатница f

  Roman: prètplatnīk (sh) m, prètplatnica (sh) f

• Spanish: suscriptor m, suscriptora f
• Swedish: abonnent (sv) c, prenumerant (sv) c (periodical)
• Turkish: abone (tr)
• Ukrainian: передпла́тник m (peredplátnyk), передпла́тниця f (peredplátnycja)
• Yiddish: אַבאָנענט‎ m (abonent)