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Definition of Follower
1. Noun. A person who accepts the leadership of another.
Specialized synonyms: Camp Follower, Cartesian, Cultist, Cultist, Adherent, Disciple, Buff, Devotee, Fan, Lover, Adulator, Flatterer, Flunkey, Flunky, Stooge, Yes-man, Freudian, Hegelian, Inferior, Jacksonian, Janissary, Jeffersonian, Jungian, Keynesian, Lamarckian, Leech, Parasite, Sponge, Sponger, Machiavellian, Mendelian, Mohammedan, Muhammadan, Muhammedan, Myrmidon, Nestorian, Newtonian, Regular, Respecter, Planet, Satellite, Sheep, Skinnerian, Stalinist, Submitter, Hanger-on, Tagalong, Feudatory, Liege, Liege Subject, Liegeman, Vassal, Wagnerian
Derivative terms: Follow
Antonyms: Leader
2. Noun. Someone who travels behind or pursues another.
Specialized synonyms: Chaser, Pursuer, Shadow, Shadow, Shadower, Tail
Derivative terms: Follow, Follow
Definition of Follower
1. n. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
Definition of Follower
1. Noun. (literally) One who follows, comes after another. ¹
2. Noun. Something that comes after another thing. ¹
3. Noun. One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer. ¹
4. Noun. One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc. ¹
5. Noun. An imitator, who follows another's example ¹
6. Noun. A pursuer. ¹
7. Noun. A machine part receiving motion from another ¹
8. Noun. A man courting a maidservant. ¹
9. Noun. Young cattle. ¹
10. Noun. A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Follower
1. one that follows [n -S] - See also: follows
Medical Definition of Follower
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1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
2. A sweetheart; a beau.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Follower
Literary usage of Follower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mechanisms and Mechanical Movements: A Treatise on Different Types of by Franklin Day Jones (1918)
"The follower of a cam belonging to either class may either move in a straight
line or ... The follower may also have either a uniform motion or a uniformly ..."
2. Mechanism by Robert McArdle Keown (1921)
"Cam and follower.—The cam mechanism usually consists of two elements, ...
Contact between Cam and follower.—Theoretically the contact between a cam and its ..."
3. Mechanism by Robert McArdle Keown (1921)
"Cam and follower.—The cam mechanism usually consists of two elements, ...
Contact between Cam and follower.—Theoretically the contact between a cam and its ..."
4. Machine Design by Forrest Robert Jones (1900)
"Cylindrical cam with follower having a right-line motion. —Fig. 109 shows the
end and side views of a cylindrical cam composed of a drum with a groove cut ..."
5. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"A SILENT LITTLE follower—THE COREOPSIS. Here I must say a word about a little
follower, present even now before my eyes. I have been accompanied on my whole ..."
6. Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe (1916)
"THE CAMP-follower WE spoke, the camp-follower and I. About us was a cold, pungent
odor — Gun-powder, stale wine, wet earth, and the smell of thousands of ..."
7. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill (1889)
"from, the beginning, the follower takes one end of the chain, and a pin which he
thrusts into the ground at the beginning of the line. ..."
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