follower

[ fol-oh-er ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that follows.

  2. a person who follows another in regard to their ideas or belief; disciple or adherent.

  1. a person who imitates, copies, or takes as a model or ideal: He was little more than a follower of current modes.

  2. an attendant, servant, or retainer.

  3. 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.

  4. British Informal. a boyfriend or suitor, especially of a maidservant.

  5. Machinery. a part receiving motion from or following the movements of another part, especially a cam.

  6. 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

1
First recorded before 900; Middle English folwer, Old English folgere. See follow, -er1

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2. Follower, adherent, partisan refer to someone who demonstrates allegiance to a person, a doctrine, a cause, or 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.

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British Dictionary definitions for follower

follower

/ (ˈfɒləʊə) /


noun
  1. a person who accepts the teachings of another; disciple; adherent: a follower of Marx

  2. an attendant or henchman

  1. an enthusiast or supporter, as of a sport or team

  2. (esp formerly) a male admirer

  3. rare a pursuer

  4. a machine part that derives its motion by following the motion of another part

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