follower
pronunciation
How to pronounce follower in British English:
UK [ˈfɒləʊə(r)]
How to pronounce follower in American English:
US [ˈfɑloʊə(r)]
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- Noun:
- an ordinary person who accepts the leadership of another
- someone who travels behind or pursues another
Word Origin
- follower (n.)
- Old English folgere "retainer, servant, disciple; successor," agent noun from follow. Compare similarly formed Old Frisian folgere, Dutch volger, German Folger. Related: Followers.
Example
- 1. Veera musikapong , a moderate thaksin follower , recommended surrender instead .
- 2. He became a follower of jansenism a fundamentalist version of the christianity of his day .
- 3. Jung was a great follower of freud and his dream analysis , but he eventually broke away to form very different theories .
- 4. The bankruptcy of the revealed-preference approach has never been better portrayed than by a prominent follower , professor kennedy .
- 5. His most eminent immediate follower , b hm-bawerk , suffered from the same misconception .