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fol·low·er

(fŏl′ō-ər)

1. One that follows, especially:

a. One who accepts the guidance, command, or leadership of another: a follower of Gandhi.

b. One who has a strong interest or pays close attention to something: a follower of new developments in technology.

2. A machine element moved by another machine element.

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follower

(ˈfɒləʊə)

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

2. an attendant or henchman

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

4. (esp formerly) a male admirer

5. rare a pursuer

6. (Mechanical Engineering) a machine part that derives its motion by following the motion of another part

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fol•low•er

(ˈfɒl oʊ ər)

n.

1. a person or thing that follows.

2. a person who follows another in regard to his or her ideas or belief.

3. a person who imitates, copies, or takes as a model or ideal.

4. an attendant, servant, or retainer.

5. a mechanical part receiving motion from or following the movements of another part, esp. a cam.

[before 900]

syn: follower, adherent, partisan refer to someone who demonstrates allegiance to a person, doctrine, cause, or the like. follower often has an implication of personal relationship or of deep devotion to authority or to a leader: a follower of Gandhi. adherent, a more formal word, suggests active championship of a person or point of view: an adherent of monetarism. partisan suggests firm loyalty, as to a party, cause, or person, that is based on emotions rather than on reasoning: a partisan of the conservatives.

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Noun	1.	follower - a person who accepts the leadership of another individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" camp follower - a follower who is not a member of an ingroup Cartesian - a follower of Cartesian thought cultist - a member of a religious cult cultist - a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader adherent, disciple - someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another buff, devotee, lover, fan - an ardent follower and admirer adulator, flatterer - a person who uses flattery stooge, yes-man, flunkey, flunky - a person of unquestioning obedience Freudian - a person who follows the basic theories or practices of Sigmund Freud Hegelian - a follower of the thought of Hegel inferior - one of lesser rank or station or quality Jacksonian - a follower of Andrew Jackson or his ideas janissary - a loyal supporter; "every politician has a following of janissaries" Jeffersonian - a follower of Thomas Jefferson or his ideas and principles Jungian - a follower or advocate of Carl Jung's theories Keynesian - a follower of the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes Lamarckian - a believer in Lamarckism leech, parasite, sponger, sponge - a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage Machiavellian - a follower of Machiavelli's principles Mendelian - a follower of Mendelism Mohammedan, Muhammadan, Muhammedan - a follower of Mohammed myrmidon - a follower who carries out orders without question Nestorian - a follower of Nestorius Newtonian - a follower of Isaac Newton regular - a dependable follower (especially in party politics); "he is one of the party regulars" respecter - a person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative; "X is no respecter of Y" planet, satellite - a person who follows or serves another sheep - a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; "his students followed him like sheep" Skinnerian - a follower of the theories or methods of B. F. Skinner Stalinist - a follower of Stalin and Stalinism submitter - someone who yields to the will of another person or force hanger-on, tagalong - someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along feudatory, liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal - a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord Wagnerian - a follower of the theories or an admirer of the music of Richard Wagner leader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others
	2.	follower - someone who travels behind or pursues another traveler, traveller - a person who changes location chaser, pursuer - a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture; "always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers" shadow - an inseparable companion; "the poor child was his mother's shadow" shadower, tail, shadow - a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

follower

noun

1. supporter, fan, representative, convert, believer, admirer, backer, partisan, disciple, protagonist, devotee, worshipper, apostle, pupil, cohort (chiefly U.S.), adherent, henchman, groupie (slang), habitué, votary violent clashes between followers of the two organisations
supporter leader, teacher, tutor, guru, mentor, svengali, swami

2. attendant, assistant, companion, helper, sidekick (slang), henchman, retainer (History), hanger-on, minion, lackey the standard devoted camp follower
attendant rival, enemy, opponent, contender, foe, antagonist

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follower

noun

One who supports and adheres to another:

adherent, cohort, disciple, henchman, minion, partisan, satellite, supporter.

Translations

تابِع، نَصير، تِلْميذ

následovník

tilhænger

Anhänger

seguidor

adepte disciple suiviste

követõ

fylgjandi

discepolo seguace sostenitore

последователь

nasledovník

yandaş

追随者

follower

[ˈfɒləʊəʳ] N (= disciple) → discípulo/a m/f, seguidor(a) m/f; [of team] → aficionado/a m/f (Pol etc) → partidario/a m/f
the followers of fashion → los que siguen la moda

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

follower

[ˈfɒləʊə^r] n

[person] → disciple mf

[movement, party] → partisan(e) m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

follower

n (= disciple) → Anhänger(in) m(f), → Schüler(in) m(f); (old, = servant) → Gefolgsmann m; to be a follower of fashion → sehr modebewusst sein; he’s a follower of Blair → er ist Blair-Anhänger or ein Anhänger von Blair

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

follower

[ˈfɒləʊəʳ] n (disciple) → seguace m/f, discepolo/a; (of team) → tifoso/a

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follow

(ˈfoləu) verb

1. to go or come after. I will follow (you).

2. to go along (a road, river etc). Follow this road.

3. to understand. Do you follow (my argument)?

4. to act according to. I followed his advice.

ˈfollower noun

a person who follows, especially the philosophy, ideas etc of another person. He is a follower of Plato (= Plato's theories).

ˈfollowing noun

supporters. He has a great following among the poorer people.

adjective

1. coming after. the following day.

2. about to be mentioned. You will need the following things.

preposition

after; as a result of. Following his illness, his hair turned white.

pronoun

things about to be mentioned. You must bring the following – pen, pencil, paper and rubber.

ˈfollow-up noun

further reaction or response. Was there any follow-up to the letter you wrote to the newspaper?

follow up

1. to go further in doing something. The police are following up a clue.

2. to find out more about (something). I followed up the news.

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Thus spake Zarathustra, and, laughing with eyes and entrails, he stood still and turned round quickly--and behold, he almost thereby threw his shadow and follower to the ground, so closely had the latter followed at his heels, and so weak was he.

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``I entertained you, sir,'' said John, reining up his palfrey haughtily, ``for my follower, but not for my counsellor.''

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COSTLY followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.

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But at this very time two serpents appeared and destroyed Laocoon and one of his two sons, a portent which so alarmed the followers of Aeneas that they withdrew to Ida.

Fragment #4 -- Scholiast on Euripedes, Troades 31: For the followers of Acamus and Demophon took no share -- it is said -- of the spoils, but only Aethra, for whose sake, indeed, they came to Ilium with Menestheus to lead them.

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Elizabethan prose, all too chaotic in the beauty and force which overflowed into it from Elizabethan poetry, and incorrect with an incorrectness which leaves it scarcely legitimate prose at all: then, in reaction against that, the correctness of Dryden, and his followers through the eighteenth century, determining the standard of a prose in the proper sense, not inferior to the prose of the Augustan age in Latin, or of the "great age in France": and, again in reaction against this, the wild mixture of poetry and prose, in our wild nineteenth century, under the influence of such writers as Dickens and Carlyle: such are the three periods into which the story of our prose literature divides itself.

The followers of Chaucer, and the precursors of Shakespeare, are alike real persons to him--old Langland reminding him of Carlyle's "Gospel of Labour." The product of a large store of reading has been here secreted anew for the reader who desires to see, in bird's-eye view, the light and shade of a long and varied period of poetic literature, by way of preparation for Shakespeare, [9] (with a full essay upon whom the volume closes,) explaining Shakespeare, so far as he can be explained by literary antecedents.

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Achmet's followers were for running a spear through the body of their hereditary enemy; but Achmet would have it otherwise.

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In vain did his anxious followers seek for him, he was nowhere to be found.

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His followers are all dancing on the plain, to their own vocal music.

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"If to any followers I princely treasure gave of old while we in that good realm happy sate," let him my gift repay, let him now aid me.