Synonyms of the word

partisan

• n. An adherent to a party or faction.
• n. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
• n. A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways…
• n. (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an…
• adj. Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops: as, a partisan officer or corps.
• adj. Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable…
• adj. Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.
• n. (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in…
• n. (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.

admirer

• n. One who admires.

advocate

• n. Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
• n. Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
• n. A person who speaks in support of something.
• n. A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
• v. (transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support,…
• v. (transitive) To encourage support for something.
• v. (intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.

advocator

• n. One who advocates.

booster

• n. Something that boosts.
• n. The first stage of a multistage rocket that provides the thrust for liftoff and the initial flight.
• n. A motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits.
• n. Someone who is a fan or supporter of something.
• n. Someone who promotes a town or business.
• n. A member of a booster club.
• n. A booster dose.
• n. (linguistics) A term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".
• n. (video games) A power-up item.

champion

• n. Someone who has been a winner in a contest.
• n. Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.
• n. Someone who fights for a cause or status.
• n. Someone who fights on another's behalf.
• adj. (attributive) Acting as a champion; that has defeated all one's competitors.
• adj. (attributive) Excellent; beyond compare.
• adj. (predicative, Ireland, Britain, dialect) Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.
• v. (usually of a cause) To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for.

denominational

• adj. Of or pertaining to a denomination.

drumbeater

• n. One who beats a drum.
• n. (figuratively) A propagandist.

enthusiast

• n. A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.
• n. (archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.

exponent

• n. One who expounds, represents or advocates.
• n. (linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.

friend

• n. A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels…
• n. A boyfriend or girlfriend.
• n. An associate who provides assistance.
• n. A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
• n. A person who backs or supports something.
• n. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
• n. (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
• n. (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected…
• n. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
• n. (obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
• v. (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate…

partizan

• n. Alternative spelling of partisan.
• n. (obsolete) A weapon of the 16^th and 17^th centuries consisting of a pike with a long double-edged blade,…

pike

• n. A very long thrusting spear used two-handed by infantry both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as…
• n. A sharp point, such as that of the weapon.
• n. Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
• n. A turnpike.
• n. A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe, found in old-fashioned footwear.
• n. (gymnastics, diving) A position with knees straight and a tight bend at the hips.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A hayfork.
• n. (obsolete) A pick.
• n. A large haycock.
• v. (transitive) To attack, prod, or injure someone with a pike.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, often with "on" or "out") To quit or back out of a promise.
• v. (gymnastics) to close (flex) hips.
• n. (now Britain regional) A mountain peak or summit.

proponent

• n. One who supports something; an advocate.
• adj. Making proposals; proposing.

protagonist

• n. The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
• n. A leading person in a contest; a principal performer.
• n. An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.

sectarian

• adj. Of, or relating to a sect.
• adj. Dogmatic or partisan.
• adj. Parochial or narrow-minded.
• adj. Bigoted.
• n. A member of a sect.
• n. A bigot.

supporter

• n. A person who gives support to someone or something.
• n. Something that supports another thing.

tendencious

• adj. Misspelling of tendentious.

tendentious

• adj. Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial…
• adj. Implicitly or explicitly slanted.

zealot

• n. One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the…
• n. (historical) A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent…
• n. (historical) A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.