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FOLLOWERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of followers or enthusiasts
Synonyms:
followers; following
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("followers" is a kind of...):
hoi polloi; mass; masses; multitude; people; the great unwashed (the common people generally)
Meronyms (members of "followers"):
buff; devotee; fan; lover (an ardent follower and admirer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "followers"):
claque (a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance)
faithful (any loyal and steadfast following)
fandom (the fans of a sport or famous person)
Context examples:
That these were the ornament and bulwark of the kingdom, worthy followers of their most renowned ancestors, whose honour had been the reward of their virtue, from which their posterity were never once known to degenerate.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
If you are a public figure or influencer, your community of followers and fans will multiply in social media and in other ways, too.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Many an anxious consultation he held with Black Simon, Sam Aylward, and other of his more experienced followers, as to who should come and who should stay.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even the stanchest of Spencer's followers will not go farther.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
What a moment that would be when the suspicions of his followers turned to certainty and he and I should have to fight for dear life—he a cripple and I a boy—against five strong and active seamen!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
After much debate, they concluded unanimously, that I was only relplum scalcath, which is interpreted literally lusus naturæ; a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristotle endeavoured in vain to disguise their ignorance, have invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
If you are active in social media, your stars show you will attract followers easily, for your popularity will soar this year.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They too are very hardy soldiers, the more so as for many hundred years they have had to fight hard against the cursed followers of the black Mahound, who have pressed upon them from the south, and still, as I understand, hold the fairer half of the country.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I don't think you have read ten pages of Spencer, but there have been critics, assumably more intelligent than you, who have read no more than you of Spencer, who publicly challenged his followers to adduce one single idea from all his writings—from Herbert Spencer's writings, the man who has impressed the stamp of his genius over the whole field of scientific research and modern thought; the father of psychology; the man who revolutionized pedagogy, so that to-day the child of the French peasant is taught the three R's according to principles laid down by him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Silver leant back against the wall, his arms crossed, his pipe in the corner of his mouth, as calm as though he had been in church; yet his eye kept wandering furtively, and he kept the tail of it on his unruly followers.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
