Supporter
[sə'pɔːtə] or [sə'pɔrtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; 'all their supporters came out for the game'; 'they are friends of the library'.
Typist: Shelley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.
(n.) Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.
(n.) A knee placed under the cathead.
(n.) A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures.
(n.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.
Editor: Seth
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Prop, stay, support, shore, brace.[2]. Sustainer, comforter.[3]. Maintainer, defender, aider, assistant, partisan, adherent, follower.
Typist: Rebecca
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ADHERENT]
Edited by Barbie
Examples
- Mr. Huskisson, one of the members of Parliament for Liverpool, and a warm friend and supporter of Stephenson and the railroad, had stepped from his coach, and was standing on the railway. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- With the revolution, he became an ardent republican and a supporter of the new French régime in Corsica. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was not a supporter of him politically, but I knew him more intimately than I did any other of the volunteer generals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The true embodiment of the spirit of Islam was not Muhammad, but his close friend and supporter Abu Bekr. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At these words, the face of him who supported me looked over into mine, and I saw my supporter to be-- Herbert! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When this has been done, let us tell the supporter of injustice that he is feeding up the beasts and starving the man. Plato. The Republic.
- The Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of Missouri, in 1861, Jackson and Reynolds, were both supporters of the rebellion and took refuge with the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Kadija, his first wife, was dead, and several of his chief supporters had also recently died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Each Pope cursed the other, and put all his supporters under an interdict. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Near the fire was Ryland and his supporters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Finally (44 B.C.) he was assassinated by a group of his own friends and supporters, to whom these divine aspirations had become intolerable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The young men whom we before called guardians may be more properly designated auxiliaries and supporters of the principles of the rulers. Plato. The Republic.
- Robespierre went off in bitter resentment to the club of his supporters, and _reread his speech to them_! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A clew to the matter may be found in the fact that the supporters of the interest side of the controversy habitually use the term self-interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was accused and arrested there and then with his chief supporters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yorke could not help asking him how he liked his supporters, and whether he did not think they did honour to his cause. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had as his chief supporters and creditors the great German business house of the Fuggers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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