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Definition of Followers
1. Noun. A group of followers or enthusiasts.
Generic synonyms: Hoi Polloi, Mass, Masses, Multitude, People, The Great Unwashed
Specialized synonyms: Claque, Faithful, Fandom
Member holonyms: Buff, Devotee, Fan, Lover
Derivative terms: Follow, Follow
Definition of Followers
1. Noun. (plural of follower) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Followers
1. follower [n] - See also: follower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Followers
Literary usage of Followers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1878)
"COSTLY followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer,
... Ordinary followers ought to challenge no higher conditions than ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"XLVIII OP Followers AND FRIENDS COSTLY followers are not to be liked; lest while
a man ... Ordinary followers ought to challenge no higher conditions than ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Yet in exacting of lus followers a life of severe simplicity, Buddha did not go to
... But in thus putting his followers on a plane of equal consideration, ..."
4. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"... that we must General refer a mysterious movement against the followers ...
that these words point to a kind of'Sicilian Vespers' of the followers of ..."
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