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ADMIRER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who admires a young woman
Example:
she had many admirers
Synonyms:
admirer; adorer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("admirer" is a kind of...):
lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admirer"):
enthusiast; fancier (a person having a strong liking for something)
suer; suitor; wooer (a man who courts a woman)
worshiper; worshipper (someone who admires too much to recognize faults)
Derivation:
admire (feel admiration for)
admire (look at with admiration)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("admirer" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admirer"):
venerator (someone who regards with deep respect or reverence)
marveller; wonderer (someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something)
Derivation:
admire (feel admiration for)
admire (look at with admiration)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person who backs a politician or a team etc.
Example:
they are friends of the library
Synonyms:
admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("admirer" is a kind of...):
advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admirer"):
New Dealer (a supporter of the economic policies in the United States known as the New Deal)
Graecophile; philhellene; philhellenist (an admirer of Greece and everything Greek)
mainstay; pillar (a prominent supporter)
Roundhead (a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War)
seconder (someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote)
Shavian (an admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works)
endorser; indorser; ratifier; subscriber (someone who expresses strong approval)
sympathiser; sympathizer; well-wisher (someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful)
toaster; wassailer (someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture)
maintainer; sustainer; upholder (someone who upholds or maintains)
verifier; voucher (someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement)
Whig (a supporter of the American Revolution)
loyalist; stalwart (a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt))
Jacobite (a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts)
functionalist (an adherent of functionalism)
free trader (an advocate of unrestricted international trade)
Francophil; Francophile (an admirer of France and everything French)
enthusiast; partisan; partizan (an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity)
corporatist (a supporter of corporatism)
Confederate (a supporter of the Confederate States of America)
cheerleader (an enthusiastic and vocal supporter)
Boswell (a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds)
believer; truster (a supporter who accepts something as true)
anglophil; anglophile (an admirer of England and things English)
Derivation:
admire (feel admiration for)
Context examples:
My lord was pleased to represent me as a great admirer of projects, and a person of much curiosity and easy belief; which, indeed, was not without truth; for I had myself been a sort of projector in my younger days.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This was the formidable Dutch Sam, who fought at nine stone six, and yet possessed such hitting powers, that his admirers, in after years, were willing to back him against the fourteen-stone Tom Cribb, if each were strapped a-straddle to a bench.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Demi, with infantile penetration, soon discovered that Dodo like to play with 'the bear-man' better than she did him, but though hurt, he concealed his anguish, for he hadn't the heart to insult a rival who kept a mine of chocolate drops in his waistcoat pocket, and a watch that could be taken out of its case and freely shaken by ardent admirers.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
To the billiard- room I hastened: the click of balls and the hum of voices resounded thence; Mr. Rochester, Miss Ingram, the two Misses Eshton, and their admirers, were all busied in the game.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
After another pause, he went on—“Pray, Miss Price, are you such a great admirer of this Mr. Crawford as some people are?
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Have you had any other admirers?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
We were speaking the other day, you know, of his being so warm an admirer of her performance.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The two gentlemen, who conducted me to the island, were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days, which I employed in seeing some of the modern dead, who had made the greatest figure, for two or three hundred years past, in our own and other countries of Europe; and having been always a great admirer of old illustrious families, I desired the governor would call up a dozen or two of kings, with their ancestors in order for eight or nine generations.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She enjoyed it heartily and found the applause of her boys more satisfying than any praise of the world, for now she told no stories except to her flock of enthusiastic believers and admirers.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
