adj
Meaning 1
Making proposals; proposing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
proponent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpəʊnənt/
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General-American: /pɹəˈpoʊnənt/
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CMU ARPABET: P R AH0 P OW1 N AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who supports something; an advocate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
One who makes a proposal or proposition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
One who propounds a will for probate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 5
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: advocate, advocator, exponent
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: apologist, vindicator, justifier, constitutionalist, Darwinian, democrat, populist, federalist, Gnostic, humanist, humanitarian, ideologist, ideologue, internationalist, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, Jansenist, libertarian, Maoist, Marxist, nationalist, neoclassicist, neutralist, nullifier, partisan, zealot, drumbeater, partitionist, Platonist, pro-lifer, presenter, sponsor, protectionist, republican, ritualist, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separatist, separationist, spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice, suffragist, supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist
History
Etymology
From Latin prōpōnēns, present participle of prōpōnō (“to put forward; propose”).
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: دَاعِم (dāʕim) — one who supports something
- Arabic: مُؤَيِّد (muʔayyid) — one who supports something
- Bulgarian: привърженик (privǎrženik) — one who supports something
- Chinese Mandarin: 支持者 (zhīchízhě) — one who supports something
- Czech: zastánce — one who supports something
- Czech: hlasatel — one who supports something
- Dutch: voorstander — one who supports something
- French: partisan — one who supports something
- French: avocat — one who supports something
- German: Befürworter — one who supports something
- German: Fürsprecher — one who supports something
- Greek: υποστηρικτής (ypostiriktís) — one who supports something
- Icelandic: flutningsmaður — one who supports something
- Icelandic: talsmaður — one who supports something
- Icelandic: málsvari — one who supports something
- Icelandic: stuðningsmaður — one who supports something
- Kazakh: жақтаушы (jaqtauşy) — one who supports something
- Polish: zwolennik — one who supports something
- Polish: zwolenniczka — one who supports something
- Polish: orędownik — one who supports something
- Polish: orędowniczka — one who supports something
- Russian: пропонент (proponent) — one who supports something
- Russian: защи́тник (zaščítnik) — one who supports something
- Serbo-Croatian: заговорник (zagovornik) — one who supports something
- Spanish: defensor — one who supports something
- Spanish: proponente — one who supports something
- Swedish: förespråkare — one who supports something
- Ukrainian: прихи́льник (pryxýlʹnyk) — one who supports something
- Ukrainian: прихи́льниця (pryxýlʹnycja) — one who supports something