Enroll Meaning
/ɪnˈɹəʊl/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
verbTo enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.
Sentence Examples
I'd like to enroll you as a member of our club.
He was not allowed to enroll in the college.
CEFR Practice Quiz
New students can ____ for classes starting next semester.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Students were encouraged to ____ in the new workshop to improve their coding skills.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English enrollen, from Anglo-Norman enroller; by surface analysis, en- + roll.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
"enroll thy memorable name
In th’ heart of every honourable dame"
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
"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: […]"
— 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 65:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
New students can ____ for classes starting next semester.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Students were encouraged to ____ in the new workshop to improve their coding skills.