Definition of Followers

1. Noun. A group of followers or enthusiasts.

Exact synonyms: Following
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

follow ons
follow out
follow somebody off a cliff
follow suit
follow through
follow up
follow up on
followable
followday
followdays
followed
followed by
followed on
followed up
follower
followers (current term)
followership
followerships
followeth
following
following(a)
following bougie
following on
following up
followingly
followings
follows
follows on
follows up
followthrough

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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