say it: suh-PAWR-tur
supporter is a noun meaning "a person who backs a politician or a team etc.". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
“all their supporters came out for the game”
“they are friends of the library”
someone who supports or champions something
a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
“my invaluable assistant”
“they hired additional help to finish the work”
a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for supporter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.