Synonyms:
supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
Meaning: a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library"
Usage examples
"'I thought she was Mr. Paraday's greatest admirer.'
What fun it had been, having an admirer even for that little while.
Such is Shakespeare's view of life as demonstrated by his greatest exponent and admirer.
You have been to me not only a loyal admirer, but a thoroughly upright and estimable example of life's purest treasures.
He was a warm admirer of the American officer, J. E. B. Stuart, the Confederate General whose dashing tactics turned the scale in so many encounters.
The gallant figure of her youthful admirer and the splendor of his military attire might at first have charmed her eye, but it was not these that had captivated her heart.
He saw so many pretty girls in a day's round, and he was so often too busy to notice half of them--though he was an admirer of pretty girls--that it was nothing new to see one and forget her, until chance threw them together again.
The question occurred to him again with greater force when three days later he found himself standing in the library at Borlsover Conyers, a huge room built for use, and not for beauty, in the year of Waterloo by a Borlsover who was an ardent admirer of the great Napoleon.