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# supporter

«supporter» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a person who likes and cheers for a sports team** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a supporter, supporters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A supporter is a person who likes and cheers for a sports team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#m1)

2) A supporter is a person who agrees with and helps an idea, a person, a charity or a political party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#m2)

3) A supporter can also be something that holds something up, like an athletic support. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday UK, Irish and Australian life: «I'm a Liverpool supporter» (US: «fan»). In politics lessons, candidates have supporters who vote and campaign. Charities thank their supporters.

### examples

- And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to be a supporter and a stronghold unto him. (Writings DAN.11.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#x1)
- He's been an Arsenal supporter since he was five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#x2)
- The supporters sang all through the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#x3)
- She is a big supporter of animal charities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#x4)
- The candidate thanked her supporters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#x5)
- The away supporters cheered loudly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#x6)
- Supporters raised money for the new hospital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/#x7)

### note

Countable. Verb: support. «Supporter» is a little more formal than «fan».

### In the corpora

- [Supporters say it restored order, critics say it cut freedoms; views are strongly divided.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/23/)
- [To concede is to accept that you lost; it shows supporters the election was fair and lets power pass peacefully to the winner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «supporter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supporter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.