1. (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• admirer
• booster
• champion
• friend
• supporter

2. (noun) the principal character in a work of fiction

• agonist

1. (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• advocate
• advocator
• exponent
• proponent

1. (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• anglophil
• anglophile
• believer
• truster
• boswell
• cheerleader
• confederate
• corporatist
• endorser
• indorser
• ratifier
• subscriber
• enthusiast
• partisan
• partizan
• francophil
• francophile
• free trader
• functionalist
• graecophile
• philhellene
• philhellenist
• jacobite
• loyalist
• stalwart
• mainstay
• pillar
• maintainer
• sustainer
• upholder
• new dealer
• roundhead
• seconder
• shavian
• sympathiser
• sympathizer
• well-wisher
• toaster
• wassailer
• verifier
• voucher
• whig

2. (noun) the principal character in a work of fiction

• antihero

1. (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• admire
• look up to
• advance
• boost
• encourage
• further
• promote
• back
• endorse
• indorse
• plump for
• plunk for
• support
• champion
• defend
• defend
• fend for
• support

2. (noun) the principal character in a work of fiction

• agony
• torment
• torture