Meaning of FOLLOWER
| Pronunciation: | | 'fâlowur
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- [n] an ordinary person who accepts the leadership of another
- [n] someone who travels behind or pursues another
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| | See Also: | | adherent, adulator, afficionado, buff, camp follower, chaser, cultist, devotee, disciple, dweeb, fan, feudatory, flatterer, flunkey, flunky, hanger-on, human, individual, inferior, janissary, leech, liege, liege subject, liegeman, lover, mortal, myrmidon, Newtonian, parasite, person, planet, pursuer, regular, respecter, satellite, shadow, shadower, sheep, Skinnerian, somebody, someone, soul, sponge, sponger, Stalinist, stooge, submitter, subordinate, subsidiary, tagalong, tail, traveler, traveller, underling, vassal, yes-man | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fol"low*er\, n. [OE. folwere, AS. folgere.]
1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a
dependent associate; a retainer.
2. A sweetheart; a beau. [Colloq.] --A. Trollope.
3. (Steam Engine)
(a) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See
Illust. of {Piston}.
(b) A gland. See Illust. of {Stuffing box}.
4. (Mach.) The part of a machine that receives motion from
another part. See {Driver}.
5. Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which
is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
Syn: Imitator; copier; disciple; adherent; partisan;
dependent; attendant.
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| | Related Terms: | | accepter, addict, adherent, adherents, admirer, adorer, advocate, aficionado, amateur, amorist, apostle, appendage, apprentice, attendance, attendant, believer, body of retainers, bodyguard, booster, bootlicker, buff, catechumen, cavaliere servente, chaser, Christian, church, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, class, cog, cohort, collector, commonality, commonalty, communicant, communion, confession, convert, cortege, court, courtier, creature, daily communicant, dangler, denomination, dependent, devotee, devotionalist, dilettante, disciple, disciples, dummy, enthusiast, entourage, faith, fan, fanatic, fancier, feudatory, figurehead, flunky, followers, following, freak, gillie, God-fearing man, good Christian, goon, groupie, habitue, hanger-on, heeler, henchman, hoi polloi, homager, homme de cour, hunter, idolater, idolizer, infatuate, inferior, ism, jackal, junior, lackey, lickspittle, liege, liege man, lightweight, lover, lower class, lower orders, man, masses, minion, myrmidon, neophyte, order, paramour, parasite, partisan, pawn, peon, persuasion, pietist, promoter, proponent, proselyte, public, pupil, puppet, pursuant, pursuer, pursuivant, quester, receiver, religionist, retainer, retinue, rooter, rout, saint, satellite, school, second fiddle, secondary, sect, sectary, seeker, serf, servant, shadow, slave, stooge, student, subaltern, subordinate, successor, suite, suitor, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, theist, third stringer, thug, toady, train, trainbearer, truster, underling, understrapper, vassal, votary, ward heeler, wooer, worshiper, yeoman, yes-man, zealot |
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