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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun adherent has 1 sense
- adherent(n = noun.person) disciple - someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another; Array has particulars: zen buddhist, mahayanist, hinayanist, lamaist, tantrist, jainist, shintoist, rasta, rastafarian, mithraist, zoroastrian, absolutist, amoralist, animist, antinomian, apostle, aristotelean, aristotelian, peripatetic, bahai, tao, taoist, clericalist, donatist, druse, druze, dualist, hussite, ismaili, ismailian, lutheran, mahdist, manichaean, manichean, manichee, monophysite, neoplatonist, diabolist, satanist, sikh, socinian, totalitarian, unitarian, trinitarian, arminian, votary, baruch
is a kind of follower
Derived form verb adhere4
Adjective adherent has 1 sense
- adherent(s = adj.all) Array - sticking fast; Array Derived forms verb adhere3, verb adhere6, noun adherence2
CIDE DICTIONARY
adherent, a. [L. adhaerens, -entis, p. pr.: cf. F. adhérent.].
- Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Attached as an attribute or circumstance. [1913 Webster]
- Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. [1913 Webster]
adherent, n.
- One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church. [1913 Webster]
- That which adheres; an appendage. Milton. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Follower; partisan; upholder; disciple; supporter; dependent; ally; backer.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
adherent, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a supporter of a party, person, etc.
2 a devotee of an activity.
--adj.
1 (foll. by to) faithfully observing a rule etc.
2 (often foll. by to) (of a substance) sticking fast.
--n.
1 a supporter of a party, person, etc.
2 a devotee of an activity.
--adj.
1 (foll. by to) faithfully observing a rule etc.
2 (often foll. by to) (of a substance) sticking fast.
Derivative
adherence n.
Etymology
F adh{eacute}rent (as ADHERE)
THESAURUS
adherent
Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Comtist, Cynic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Eretrian, Fichtean, Hegelian, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Herbartian, Humist, Husserlian, Kantian, Kierkegaardian, Leibnizian, Marxist, Megarian, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonist, Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonist, Pyrrhonist, Pythagorean, Sartrian, Scholastic, Scotist, Socratist, Sophist, Spencerian, Spinozist, Stoic, Thomist, Wittgensteinian, adhesive, agnostic, animist, appendage, applauder, appreciator, attendant, backer, barnacle, booster, bramble, brier, buff, bulldog, burr, cavaliere servente, cement, champion, claqueur, cohort, commender, cosmotheist, courtier, creature, dangler, decal, decalcomania, deist, dependent, dialectical materialist, disciple, dualist, dummy, eclectic, egoist, empiricist, encomiast, essentialist, eulogist, eulogizer, existentialist, extoller, fan, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, gillie, glue, goon, gunk, hanger-on, hedonist, heeler, henchman, homme de cour, humanist, hylomorphist, hylotheist, hylozoist, idealist, immaterialist, individualist, intuitionist, jackal, lackey, lauder, leech, limpet, logical empiricist, man, materialist, mechanist, mentalist, minion, molasses, monist, mucilage, myrmidon, mystic, naturalist, nominalist, ontologist, organic mechanist, organicist, panegyrist, panpsychist, pantheist, parasite, partisan, paste, physicist, plaster, plugger, positivist, pragmatist, praiser, prickle, promoter, psychist, public, puffer, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, rationalist, realist, remora, retainer, rooter, satellite, sectary, secular humanist, sensationalist, sensist, servant, shadow, skeptic, sticker, stooge, substantialist, successor, supporter, sycophant, syncretist, syrup, tagtail, tail, theist, thorn, thug, tout, touter, trainbearer, transcendentalist, upholder, utilitarian, vitalist, voluntarist, votary, ward heeler, zeteticROGET THESAURUS
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Auxiliary
N auxiliary, recruit, assistant, adjuvant, adjutant, ayudante, coaid, adjunct, help, helper, help mate, helping hand, midwife, colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator, coadjutor, coadjutrix, collaborator, ally, friend, confidant, fidus Achates, pal, buddy, alter ego, confederate, accomplice, complice, accessory, accessory after the fact, particeps criminis, socius criminis, aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal, right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer, candle- holder, bottle-holder, handmaid, servant, puppet, cat's-paw, jackal, tool, dupe, stooge, ame damnee, satellite, adherent, votary, sectarian, secretary, seconder, backer, upholder, abettor, advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator, angel (theater, entertainment), friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina, guardian angel, tutelary genius.
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