The meaning of Followers

noun

A person assisting a priest in a religious service or procession.

Usage examples:

There were scores of acolytes and priests, preparing to begin the ritual.

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Each of the twelve chief disciples of jesus christ.

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This is evident in the lives of the prophets, john the baptist, the apostles and the lord jesus chr…

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Any of the twelve men whom jesus christ chose to teach other people about christianity, or someone who strongly supports a particular belief or political movement

noun

A person who ranks below a senior person.

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The managing director and his assistant

noun

A person employed to provide a service to the public in a particular place.

Usage examples:

A cloakroom attendant

adjective

Occurring with or as a result of.

Usage examples:

The sea and its attendant attractions

noun

Someone whose job is to help others in a particular place or situation

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A gas station/parking lot attendant

noun

A person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom one travels.

Usage examples:

His travelling companion

verb

Accompany.

Usage examples:

He is companioned by a pageboy

noun

A covering over the hatchway leading to a ship's companionway.

Usage examples:

The room was illumined from the light in the companion, and the dim lantern hung from the deck beam.

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A personal follower of christ during his life, especially one of the twelve apostles.

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Jesus' apostles and disciples in the early church felt the importance of prayer ahead of missionary…

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A person who believes in the ideas of a leader, esp. a religious or political one, and tries to live according to those ideas

Usage examples:

Jesse jackson was a disciple of martin luther king, jr.

noun

A person who tries to be friendly and spend time with rich or important people to get some advantage

Usage examples:

Wherever there are rock stars, there are always hangers-on.

noun

A faithful follower or political supporter, especially one prepared to engage in crime or violence by way of service.

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The dictator's henchman

noun

A person who is loyal to and works for someone in a position of authority and is willing to help that person even by hurting others or by committing crimes

Usage examples:

Although the president kept himself above the fray, his henchmen were blaming everyone.

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

noun

A vassal who owed feudal service or allegiance to a nobleman.

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The occasional frightened servant scurried past every so often but the liegeman said nothing as the…

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

noun

One or both sides of a sheet of paper in a book, magazine, newspaper, or other collection of bound sheets.

Usage examples:

A book of not less than 40 pages

verb

Look through the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.).

Usage examples:

She was paging through a pile of sunday newspapers

verb

Summon (someone) over a public address system, so as to pass on a message.

Usage examples:

No need to interrupt the background music just to page the concierge

noun

An officer of the college of arms ranking below a herald. the four ordinary pursuivants are rouge croix, bluemantle, rouge dragon, and portcullis.

Usage examples:

I was advised by one of their herald pursuivant that there is no official or legal way up.

noun

A thing that holds something in place.

Usage examples:

A guitar string retainer

noun

An amount of money that you pay to someone in advance so that the person will work for you when needed

Usage examples:

He was on a $150,000 retainer from lloyd's of london.

noun

An amount of money that you pay to a lawyer, consultant (= someone paid to give expert advice or training), etc. in order to be sure that they can work for you when you need them to

Usage examples:

The firm retained white as a consultant, paying him a $5,000 retainer., get/be on/receive a retaine…

noun

An artificial body placed in orbit round the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.

Usage examples:

A communications satellite

noun

A natural object moving around a larger object in space, or an artificial object sent up into space to travel around the earth

Usage examples:

A spy/weather satellite, the moon is a satellite of the earth.

noun

A piece of equipment that is sent up into space to travel round the earth, used for collecting information or communicating by radio, television, etc.

Usage examples:

The cost of launching a satellite into orbit is vast., by satellite he will address the trade conve…

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A person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.

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Financially they were well enough established to be able to employ a domestic servant.

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A person who is employed to do work for another person, esp. to work in another person’s home doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning

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A civil/public servant

noun

A person's assistant or close associate, especially one who has less authority than that person.

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Sherlock holmes' bumbling sidekick watson

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A friend, or a person who works with someone more important

Usage examples:

The course will focus on fictional master sleuth sherlock holmes and his sidekick dr. watson.

noun

A man of high social standing who owns and lives on an estate in a rural area, especially the chief landowner in such an area.

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The squire of radbourne hall

verb

A subadult snapper fish ( chrysophrys auratus ).

noun

A person who approves of and encourages a public figure, political party, policy, etc.

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Labour supporters

noun

A person who actively helps someone

Usage examples:

Supporters of the bill expect it to pass., he is a strong supporter of states’ rights.

noun

A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

Usage examples:

He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

verb

Act in an obsequious way.

Usage examples:

She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun

A person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them

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Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies., shostakovich was often seen as a p…