Another word for follower
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Noun
One who supports and adheres to another
- One that supports, as a structural member of a building.
- One who promotes or advocates; an adherent:
- An athletic supporter.
- An object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body, as a device for reflecting or relaying radio signals or for capturing images.
- A celestial body, such as a moon, planet, comet, or other solar system body, that orbits a larger body.
- A small unit in a system or organization that is managed or controlled by a larger, often centrally located unit.
- A fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
- A member of an organized body of fighters who attack or harass an enemy, especially within occupied territory; a guerrilla.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a partisan or partisans.
- An obsequious follower or dependent; a sycophant.
- A subordinate official, especially a servile one.
- One who is highly esteemed or favored; a darling.
- A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate.
- A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests.
- A member of a criminal gang.
- One who embraces and assists in spreading the teachings of another.
- An active adherent, as of a movement or philosophy.
- One of the original followers of Jesus.
- A group or band of people.
- A companion or associate.
- A generational group as defined in demographics, statistics, or market research:
- A supporter, as of a cause or individual:
- Sticking or holding fast.
- Joined but not united. Used of dissimilar parts or organs.
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Another word for follower
Noun
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- A fan who follows a rock group around on tours.
- An enthusiastic supporter or follower:
- One who tends to agree uncritically with others, especially with people in superior positions.
- One that closely imitates or mimics another.
- To act as an imitator or mimic.
- To imitate closely; mimic.
- The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedian; a straight man.
- One who allows oneself to be used for another's profit or advantage; a puppet.
- A stool pigeon.
- someone who upholds something
- A sectarian.
- A dissenter from an established church, especially a Protestant nonconformist.
- A coworker; an assistant.
- A subordinate bishop designated as an assistant and usually as a successor to the bishop of a given diocese.
- Giving assistance or support; helping.
- Acting as a subsidiary; supplementary:
- Held in or used as a reserve:
- One who is deeply, sometimes fanatically devoted to a cause, organization, or person:
- One that promotes, especially an active supporter or advocate.
- A financial and publicity organizer, as of a boxing match or an artistic performance.
- The region of an operon that acts as the initial binding site for RNA polymerase.
- One that supports, protects, or champions someone or something, such as an institution, event, or cause; a sponsor or benefactor:
- A customer, especially a regular customer.
- The owner or manager of an establishment, especially a restaurant or an inn of France or Spain.
- An enthusiastic admirer or follower; a fan.
- One who admires.
- A syntactic unit of a sentence; a clause.
- A proposition of a syllogism.
- An element in a set.
- To speak, plead, or argue in favor of:
- To act as an advocate:
- One that argues for a cause; a supporter or defender:
- One who is ardently devoted to something; an enthusiast or advocate:
- An ardent or fanatical adherent of a religion.
- One who can give a firsthand account of something seen, heard, or experienced:
- One who is called on to testify before a court.
- One who is called on to be present at a transaction in order to attest to what takes place.
- Any of the authors of the four Gospels in the New Testament, traditionally identified by the names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
- One who practices evangelism, especially a Protestant preacher or missionary.
- One who promulgates or promotes something enthusiastically.
- One who assumes responsibility for another person or a group during a period of instruction, apprenticeship, or probation.
- One who vouches for the suitability of a candidate for admission, as to an organization.
- A legislator who proposes and urges adoption of a bill.
- One that participates, shares, or takes part in something.
- Sharing in or taking part; participating.
- One that backs a person, group, or enterprise:
- One who bets on a contestant.
- One who provides or works with backs or backing.
- One who is zealous, especially excessively so.
- A fanatically committed person.
- A member of a Jewish movement of the first century ad that fought against Roman rule in Palestine as incompatible with strict monotheism.
- A new convert to a doctrine or religion.
- To proselytize (a person).
- To engage in proselytization.
- One of a group made up especially of the 12 disciples chosen by Jesus to preach the gospel.
- A missionary of the early Christian Church.
- A leader of the first Christian mission to a country or region.
- A person bound by vows to live a life of religious worship or service.
- A devout adherent of a cult or religion; a committed worshiper:
- A person who is fervently devoted, as to a leader or ideal; a faithful follower.
- An object launched to orbit Earth or another celestial body, as a device for reflecting or relaying radio signals or for capturing images.
- A celestial body, such as a moon, planet, comet, or other solar system body, that orbits a larger body.
- A small unit in a system or organization that is managed or controlled by a larger, often centrally located unit.
- Alternative spelling of worshipper.
- A student under the direct supervision of a teacher or professor.
- A minor under the supervision of a guardian.
- To enlist (persons) in military service.
- To strengthen or raise (an armed force) by enlistment.
- To hire or enroll, or seek to hire or enroll (new employees, members, or students).
- A person who assists the celebrant in the performance of liturgical rites.
- A devoted follower or attendant.
- a person or thing that helps; esp., an assisting worker who is more or less unskilled
- A liveried male servant; a footman.
- A servile follower; a toady.
- To wait on as a footman; attend.
- A person who held land from a feudal lord and received protection in return for homage and allegiance.
- A bondman; a slave.
- A subordinate or dependent.
- A person who accompanies or associates with another; a comrade.
- A domestic partner.
- A person employed to assist, live with, or travel with another.
- A person who spends time in the company of another person or of a group out of admiration or for personal gain.
- A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate.
- A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests.
- A member of a criminal gang.
- One who attends or waits on another.
- One who is present.
- An accompanying thing or circumstance; a concomitant.
- A fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
- A member of an organized body of fighters who attack or harass an enemy, especially within occupied territory; a guerrilla.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a partisan or partisans.
- A machine using an electric motor to rotate thin, rigid vanes in order to move air, as for cooling.
- A collapsible, usually wedge-shaped device made of a light material such as silk, paper, or plastic.
- A machine for winnowing.
- One that supports, as a structural member of a building.
- One who promotes or advocates; an adherent:
- An athletic supporter.
- One who embraces and assists in spreading the teachings of another.
- An active adherent, as of a movement or philosophy.
- One of the original followers of Jesus.
- A supporter, as of a cause or individual:
- Sticking or holding fast.
- Joined but not united. Used of dissimilar parts or organs.
Synonym Study
- Partisan refers to an unswerving, often blindly devoted, adherent of some person or cause
- Disciple implies a personal, devoted relationship to the teacher of some doctrine or leader of some movement Plato was a disciple of Socrates
- Adherent refers to a close, active follower of some theory, cause, etc. the adherents of a political party
- Supporter applies to one who upholds or defends opinions or theories that are disputed or under attack a supporter of technocracy
- Follower is the general term for one who follows or believes in the teachings or theories of someone a follower of Freud
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