ADMIRER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does admirer mean? 

• ADMIRER (noun)
  The noun ADMIRER has 3 senses:

1. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

2. a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves

3. someone who admires a young woman

  Familiarity information: ADMIRER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMIRER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who backs a politician or a team etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter

Context example:

they are friends of the library

Hypernyms ("admirer" is a kind of...):

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admirer"):

New Dealer (a supporter of the economic policies in the United States known as the New Deal)

Whig (a supporter of the American Revolution)

Graecophile; philhellene; philhellenist (an admirer of Greece and everything Greek)

mainstay; pillar (a prominent supporter)

Roundhead (a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War)

seconder (someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote)

Shavian (an admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works)

endorser; indorser; ratifier; subscriber (someone who expresses strong approval)

sympathiser; sympathizer; well-wisher (someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful)

toaster; wassailer (someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture)

maintainer; sustainer; upholder (someone who upholds or maintains)

verifier; voucher (someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement)

loyalist; stalwart (a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt))

Jacobite (a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts)

functionalist (an adherent of functionalism)

free trader (an advocate of unrestricted international trade)

Francophil; Francophile (an admirer of France and everything French)

enthusiast; partisan; partizan (an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity)

corporatist (a supporter of corporatism)

Confederate (a supporter of the Confederate States of America)

cheerleader (an enthusiastic and vocal supporter)

Boswell (a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds)

believer; truster (a supporter who accepts something as true)

anglophil; anglophile (an admirer of England and things English)

Derivation:

admire (feel admiration for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("admirer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admirer"):

venerator (someone who regards with deep respect or reverence)

marveller; wonderer (someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something)

Derivation:

admire (feel admiration for)

admire (look at with admiration)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who admires a young woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

admirer; adorer

Context example:

she had many admirers

Hypernyms ("admirer" is a kind of...):

lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admirer"):

suer; suitor; wooer (a man who courts a woman)

worshiper; worshipper (someone who admires too much to recognize faults)

enthusiast; fancier (a person having a strong liking for something)

Derivation:

admire (feel admiration for)

admire (look at with admiration)

 Context examples 

In himself he was wearisome, but as the friend of Tom and the admirer of Julia he became offensive.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the time to come, I shall have a wary eye on all admirers; and shall exact a great deal from the successful one, I assure you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But his admirers' ears were deaf.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This Dr. Barnicot is an enthusiastic admirer of Napoleon, and his house is full of books, pictures, and relics of the French Emperor.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And this is the end, you see, of Captain Benwick's being supposed to be an admirer of yours.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Such an admirer of her performance on the pianoforte, and of her voice!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She is a very pretty girl and has attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But there is one comfort, my dear Miss Marianne; he is not the only young man in the world worth having; and with your pretty face you will never want admirers.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In fact, you will turn heads, and admirers will be eager to meet you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)