enroll

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
   • All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →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.1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   list, note, note down, record, register, catalogue, enlist, induct, enscroll, put down

2. (transitive) To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.
   • They were eager to enroll new recruits.

   Synonyms:

   enlist, sign up, subscribe

3. (intransitive, reflexive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
   • Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?

   Synonyms:

   enlist, join, join up, sign up, subscribe

   1. (intransitive, reflexive) To register as a member of an educational institution.
   2. (US, intransitive, reflexive) To register for a class or course of study.
      • Rather than stopping her education, she enrolled in a GED program so she could go to college.2026 July 16, Nicholas Muhoro, “Inside the 2004 Brianna Maitland Case: One of Vermont’s Most Haunting Mysteries”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2026
   3. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive, reflexive) To register to vote.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To envelop; to enwrap.
   • 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, […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
   • enroll thy memorable name
     In th’ heart of every honourable dame1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
5. (intransitive) To curl up into a ball.
   • Many trilobites (e.g.37), including Ampyx priscus (Supplementary Fig. 11) had the capacity to enroll as do modern terrestrial isopods when threatened.2019 October 17, Jean Vannier et al., “Collective behaviour in 480-million-year-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco”, in Scientific Reports