supporter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

   all their supporters came out for the game

2. 2
   noun

   A person who gives support to someone or something.

   During the latter part of the rebellion, he has pretended to be a warm supporter of the Government, and he may have been sincere; but, from what others have told me, he said to them he was not during the early part of the rebellion.

3. 3
   noun

   Something that supports another thing.

   Combustibility, then, is not a quality of the combustible, taken by itself. It is merely a faculty which may be brought into action through the instrumentality of a corresponding faculty in some other body. It is, in the case now before us, the union of the combustible with oxygen, and which, for this reason, is called the "supporter"; neither of which, however, when taken alone, can be consumed. To effect combustion, then, we must have a combustible and a supporter of combustion.

4. 4
   noun

   a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise

5. 5
   noun

   a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

6. 6
   noun

   a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

7. 7
   noun

   someone who supports or champions something

Etymology

From Middle English supporter, supportour, equivalent to support + -er.