FOLLOWERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does followers mean? 

• FOLLOWERS (noun)
  The noun FOLLOWERS has 1 sense:

1. a group of followers or enthusiasts

  Familiarity information: FOLLOWERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLLOWERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of followers or enthusiasts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

followers; following

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

hoi polloi; mass; masses; multitude; people; the great unwashed (the common people generally)

Meronyms (members of "followers"):

buff; devotee; fan; lover (an ardent follower and admirer)

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

claque (a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance)

faithful (any loyal and steadfast following)

fandom (the fans of a sport or famous person)

 Context examples 

If you are active in social media, watch your followers grow, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you've any followers—housebreakers or such like—anywhere near, you may tell them we are not by ourselves in the house; we have a gentleman, and dogs, and guns.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers: “Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But there was no sign of reawakening courage in his followers, rather, indeed, of growing terror at the irreverence of his words.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I have heard that Wicliff hath many followers in Norwich,” answered Alleyne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maeterlinck's followers rallied around the standard of mysticism.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The old physicians took account of things which their followers do not accept, and the Professor is searching for witch and demon cures which may be useful to us later.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As Peggotty was wont to tell me, long ago, the followers of my father to the same grave were made ready in the same room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It is part of the settled order of Nature that such a girl should have followers, said Holmes, he pulled at his meditative pipe, but for choice not on bicycles in lonely country roads.

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