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Champion

To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

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Best 84% connected

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cl…

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Best 84% connected

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cl…

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Advocate 76% connected

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

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Back 76% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Challenger 76% connected

One who challenges.

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Competition 76% connected

The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for supe…

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Competitor 76% connected

One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.

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Contender 76% connected

One who contends; a contestant.

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Defender 76% connected

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.

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Endorse 76% connected

Same as Indorse.

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Expert 76% connected

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice;…

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Exponent 76% connected

A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a fa…

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Guardian 76% connected

One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.

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Indorse 76% connected

To cover the back of; to load or burden.

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Proponent 76% connected

Making proposals; proposing.

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Protector 76% connected

One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.

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Rival 76% connected

A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Believer 76% connected

One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

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Confederate 76% connected

United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.

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Endorser 76% connected

Same as Indorser.

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Enthusiast 76% connected

One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman;…

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Indorser 76% connected

Alt. of Indorsor

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Jacobite 76% connected

A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and…

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Loyalist 76% connected

A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defen…

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Mainstay 76% connected

The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.

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Maintainer 76% connected

One who maintains.

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Partisan 76% connected

An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.

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Philhellene 76% connected

A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist.

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Philhellenist 76% connected

A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Tur…

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Pillar 76% connected

The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not suppor…

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Ratifier 76% connected

One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer.

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Roundhead 76% connected

A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

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Seconder 76% connected

One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

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Stalwart 76% connected

Alt. of Stalworth

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Subscriber 76% connected

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

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Sustainer 76% connected

One who, or that which, sustains.

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Sympathizer 76% connected

One who sympathizes.

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Toaster 76% connected

One who toasts.

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Truster 76% connected

One who trusts, or credits.

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Upholder 76% connected

A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman.

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Verifier 76% connected

One who, or that which, verifies.

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Voucher 76% connected

One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.

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Wassailer 76% connected

One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.

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Whig 76% connected

Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.

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Ace 92% connected

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adept 92% connected

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

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Admirer 92% connected

One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

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Champ 92% connected

To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.

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Defend 92% connected

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

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Fighter 92% connected

One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.

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Friend 92% connected

One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate ass…

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Genius 92% connected

A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit,…

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Hero 92% connected

An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.

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Paladin 92% connected

A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.

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Protagonist 92% connected

One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.

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Sensation 92% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Star 92% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Supporter 92% connected

One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.

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Virtuoso 92% connected

One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.

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Whiz 92% connected

To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

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Wizard 92% connected

A wise man; a sage.

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