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# followers

«followers» in Mova's school dictionary: **people who support, believe in or copy a leader, team or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, plural of follower (a follower, followers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Followers are people who support, believe in or copy a leader, team or idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#m1)

2) On social media, followers are the people who choose to see your posts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#m2)

3) People or animals that come after or go after someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life (social media followers), history and religion (followers of a teacher or leader), sport (fans). Phrases: «have many followers», «loyal followers», «a follower of fashion». Safety: do not share personal details with online followers you don't know.

### examples

- The singer has millions of followers online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#x1)
- The leader's followers marched through the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#x2)
- Ducklings are good followers of their mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#x3)
- Be careful what you post — strangers may be followers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#x4)
- He is a follower, not a leader. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#x5)
- The football club has loyal followers all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#x6)
- His three followers watched him, waiting for orders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/followers/#x7)

### note

Countable. From the verb «follow». Online follower counts can be large numbers; e.g. «2.5 million followers» = 2 500 000. Gaining 300 followers a week means after 4 weeks you gain 1 200.

### In the corpora

- [Christians see Pentecost, when Jesus' followers were understood in many languages, as the reversal of Babel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/19/)
- [In the Great Commission Jesus told his followers to go to all nations, make disciples and baptise them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/19-easter-and-pentecost/14/)
- [Followers of Islam are called Muslims, and Islam is the second largest religion in the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/31-islam/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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