a person who follows another in regard to his or her ideas or belief; disciple or adherent.
a person who imitates, copies, or takes as a model or ideal: He was little more than a follower of current modes.
an attendant, servant, or retainer.
a person who follows or subscribes to another's posts on a social media website: He spent hours figuring out how to get more followers on Twitter.
BritishInformal. a boyfriend or suitor, especially of a maidservant.
Machinery. a part receiving motion from or following the movements of another part, especially a cam.
Engineering, Building Trades. a concrete form attached to the head of a timber pile to permit casting of a concrete cap or pier.
Origin of follower
before 900; Middle English folwer, Old English folgere. See follow, -er1
SYNONYMS FOR follower
2 supporter.
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ANTONYMS FOR follower
2 opponent, adversary, enemy, foe.
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synonym study for follower
2. Follower,adherent,partisan refer to someone who demonstrates allegiance to a person, a doctrine, a cause, and the like. Follower often has an implication of personal relationship or of slavish acquiescence. Adherent, a more formal word, has implications of active championship of a person or a point of view. Partisan, ordinarily meaning a person prejudiced and unreasoning in adherence to a party, during World War II took on the meaning of a member of certain groups in occupied countries of Europe who carried on underground resistance to the Nazis.
Words nearby follower
folliculus, follis, follitropin, follow, follow along, follower, followership, following, following bougie, follow in someone's footsteps, follow-my-leader
As you build your audience on websites like Facebook and Instagram, be sure to engage with followers consistently.
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The FBI has named QAnon a domestic terrorism threat, and it has gained more attention as its followers have run for Congress and attempted to co-opt legitimate anti-sex trafficking marches for their own political purposes.
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If an influencer’s audience aligns with your target demographic you can pay them to promote your brand to their followers.
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When I started writing this book, I noticed that I had a new Twitter follower by the name of Lonnie Konkel.
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Al-Zarqawi believed in the importance of purging apostates – something his follower clearly endorses.
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In early 2011, Russia warned the U.S. that Tsarnaev, who grew up in the region, was a follower of radical Islam.
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At other times, he spoke of emulating the settler movement, of which he was a follower in his youth.
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In July, 2012, he awarded a house to his three-millionth Twitter follower.
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These were the visionary and turbulent (p. 37) Archer and his follower Ratcliffe.
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He regarded him as a follower of the evil one, and could not hear his name mentioned with equanimity.
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Johnson had a relation called Nathaniel, and Pickwick had a “follower” also Nathaniel.
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His Excellency, too, is a man of warlike turn, a follower of the sports of the field.
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It is not that Scott could not have done what his follower did, had he so chosen; only that as a matter of fact he did not.
James Fenimore Cooper|Thomas R. Lounsbury
British Dictionary definitions for follower
follower
/ (ˈfɒləʊə) /
noun
a person who accepts the teachings of another; disciple; adherenta follower of Marx
an attendant or henchman
an enthusiast or supporter, as of a sport or team
(esp formerly) a male admirer
rarea pursuer
a machine part that derives its motion by following the motion of another part