exponent

1. 1.

   a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

   Synonymsadvocateadvocatorproponent

   Broaderperson

   NarrowerapologistconstitutionalistDarwiniandemocratpopulistfederalistGnostichumanistideologistinternationalist
2. 2.

   someone who expounds and interprets or explains

   Broaderintellectual
3. 3.

   a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself

   Synonymspowerindex

   Broadermathematical notation

   Narrowerdegreelogarithm

Other forms of exponent

plural

exponents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about exponent

What does exponent mean?

exponent means "a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exponent?

exponent has 3 syllables: ex-po-nent. The stress falls on "ex". In IPA it is /ˈɛkˌspoʊnənt/.

What is another word for exponent?

Close synonyms include advocate, advocator, proponent, power, index. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is exponent a common word?

exponent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.