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upholder
noun as in advocate
noun as in believer
Weak match
noun as in champion
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in exponent
noun as in mainstay
noun as in partisan
noun as in pillar
noun as in proponent
noun as in supporter
noun as in support/supporter
Weak matches
- adherent
- advocate
- ally
- angel
- apologist
- backbone
- backer
- benefactor
- champion
- cohort
- comforter
- confederate
- coworker
- defender
- disciple
- endorser
- espouser
- exponent
- expounder
- fan
- follower
- friend
- helper
- mainstay
- maintainer
- partisan
- patron
- pillar
- preserver
- prop
- proponent
- satellite
- second
- sponsor
- stalwart
- stay
- subscriber
- sustainer
- tower of strength
- well-wisher
Example Sentences
Raisi was a protege of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a devoted upholder of religious rule in the country.
Raisi, 63, was a conservative Shiite Muslim cleric who violently crushed dissent and was a devoted upholder of religious rule in the country.
Twenty-three years later, with the release of “Masters of the Air,” they’ve become their own greatest generation: upholders of an old-fashioned style of television making, fighting their chosen war over and over again.
In each example, the Constitution and its upholders affirmed that former presidents can be prosecuted for actions they take in office, prosecutors said.
Watt and his supporters saw him as an upholder of President Ronald Reagan’s core conservative values, but opponents were alarmed by his policies and offended by his comments.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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