All apologist synonyms
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A a noun apologist
- protector β a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
- advocator β a person who advocates
- pleader β a person who pleads, especially at law.
- polemicist β a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- sophist β (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- adherent β An adherent is someone who holds a particular belief or supports a particular person or group.
- advocate β If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- ally β A country's ally is another country that has an agreement to support it, especially in war.
- angel β Angels are spiritual beings that some people believe are God's servants in heaven.
- backbone β Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
- backer β A backer is someone who helps or supports a project, organization, or person, often by giving or lending money.
- benefactor β A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- champion β A champion is someone who has won the first prize in a competition, contest, or fight.
- cohort β A person's cohorts are their friends, supporters, or associates.
- comforter β A comforter is a person or thing that comforts you.
- confederate β Someone's confederates are the people they are working with in a secret activity.
- defender β If someone is a defender of a particular thing or person that has been criticized, they argue or act in support of that thing or person.
- disciple β Religion. one of the 12 personal followers of Christ. one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1. any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
- fan β an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
- follower β a person or thing that follows.
- friend β a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
- helper β a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
- mainstay β Nautical. the stay that secures the mainmast forward.
- partisan β a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
- patron β (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
- pillar β an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- prop β to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
- proponent β a person who puts forward a proposition or proposal.
- satellite β Astronomy. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
- second β next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- sponsor β a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
- stalwart β strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust.
- stay β (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- subscriber β a person, company, etc., that subscribes, as to a publication or concert series.
- supporter β a person or thing that supports.
- coworker β Your coworkers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- unendorsed β to approve, support, or sustain: to endorse a political candidate.
- maintainer β to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- preserver β to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- sustainer β a person or thing that sustains.
- tower of strength β a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
- upholder β to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
- well-wisher β a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
- mediator β a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.