Synonyms of the word

suffragist

• n. A person who promotes suffrage.

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.

exponent

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

proponent

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