Synonyms of the word

supporter

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

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.

assistant

• adj. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
• adj. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
• n. A person who assists or helps someone else.
• n. (Britain) Sales assistant.
• n. A software tool that provides assistance in some task.

band

• n. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
• n. (architecture) A strip of decoration.
• n. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
• n. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
• n. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic…
• n. (physics) A part of the radio spectrum.
• n. (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
• n. (obsolete) A bond.
• n. (obsolete) Pledge; security.
• n. (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify…
• n. (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc.
• n. (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $10K, held together by a band; (by extension)…
• v. (transitive) To fasten with a band.
• v. (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
• n. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
• n. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
• n. A marching band.
• n. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
• n. (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.
• n. (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government…
• v. (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

benefactor

• n. Somebody who gives one a gift. Usually refers to someone who gives money to a charity or another form…

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.

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…

garter

• n. A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
• n. (heraldry) A bendlet.
• v. to fasten with a garter.

help

• n. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
• n. (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
• n. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
• n. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation…
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social…
• v. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
• v. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
• v. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive…
• interj. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance.

helper

• n. One who helps; an aide.
• n. (Singapore) A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family, or in a market.

jock

• n. (slang, archaic) A common man.
• n. (Britain, slang, pejorative) A Scotsman.
• n. (slang, rare, dated) The penis.
• n. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports, a jockstrap.
• n. (US, slang) A young male athlete (through college age).
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) An enthusiastic athlete or sports fan, especially one with few other interests…
• n. (US, slang, computing, in combination) A specialist computer programmer.
• v. (slang) to masturbate.
• v. (slang) to humiliate.
• v. (slang) to steal.

jockstrap

• n. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals during strenuous exercise.

patron

• n. One who protects or supports; a defender.
• n. A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
• n. A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
• n. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
• n. (historical, Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights…
• n. An advocate or pleader.
• n. (Britain, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
• n. (nautical) A padrone.
• v. (obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.

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.

sponsor

• n. A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially…
• n. One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange…
• v. (transitive) To be a sponsor for.

suspensor

• n. (US) An athletic support; a jockstrap.
• n. The cord which suspends the embryo, and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.

worker

• n. A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.
• n. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.
• n. (computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.