supporter

noun

sə-ˈpȯr-tər How to pronounce supporter (audio)
Definition of supporternext
1
as in proponent
a person who actively supports or favors a cause President Lyndon B. Johnson was a strong supporter of civil rights

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2
as in ally
someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support even the President's supporters acknowledge that some of the criticism is justified

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Recent Examples of supporter His daughter, Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte, visited him in the court's detention center Friday and met with supporters outside the court. — arkansasonline.com, 15 Mar. 2025 Read More Trump supporter accused of plotting to assassinate Trump at CA rally. — Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025 On Wednesday, Lyle Menendez reacted to the news to his supporters and family in a Facebook post. — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025 Mobutu’s long-standing Western supporters were tired of his corruption and brutality. — Michela Wrong, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for supporter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supporter
  1. proponent
  2. ally
  3. advocate
  4. colleague
  5. friend
  6. confidant
  7. assistant
Noun
  • Apple has long been a vocal proponent of the sanctity of its users’ personal data.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • George Fishman, senior legal fellow at the conservative Center of Immigration Studies and former deputy general counsel at Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration, has been a strong proponent of the act.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of proponent
Noun
  • With his eyes presumably on that prize, Newsom is distancing himself as much as possible from the progressive wing of his party, and from any unpopular positions that his political allies might have adopted in the past decade.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Trump and his allies have continued to verbally attack federal judges who have issued temporary restraining orders and injunctions on implementation of his policies and executive orders.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of ally
Noun
  • The draft lawsuit is the work of the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation, a low-profile nonprofit that has drawn support from balanced budget advocates and the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council.
    — Phoebe Petrovic, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Palmer was an early advocate for girls’ athletics, but her attitudes were still of their time.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of advocate
Noun
  • In this mostly fictional version, the reclusive Omara has to decide whether or not to come back from retirement and record with her old colleagues from the fervent Cuban years, thus confronting those ghosts.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • My recent work with colleagues in computer scientist Pamela Wisniewski’s Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab underscores a critical point: social media is neither inherently harmful nor entirely beneficial.
    — Abdulmalik Alluhidan, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of colleague
Noun
  • Growing up in Africa, my friends and I would do that.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Some of Ukraine’s friends—Poland, the United Kingdom and the Baltic states Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia—want to do more by taking the principal as well, given the enormous damage Russia has done.
    — DAVID McHUGH, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of friend
Noun
  • And as the man at its helm, Musk has been presidential confidant, cost-cutter, and government contractor all at once.
    — Robert Costa, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Cutter, another Harris confidant later joked, cut him out.
    — Amie Parnes, The Hill, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of confidant
Noun
  • On Thursday, Way’s lawyer, Rickey Ivie, said his client never agreed to hire Jane Doe as an assistant.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The 10 individuals initially arrested in September 2017, which included four college assistant coaches, were all relative bit players in the ecosystem.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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