upholder

1. 1.

   someone who upholds or maintains

   “firm upholders of tradition”

   “they are sustainers of the idea of democracy”

   Synonymsmaintainersustainer

   Broadersupporter

Other forms of upholder

plural

upholders·

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 upholder

What does upholder mean?

upholder means "someone who upholds or maintains".

How many syllables are in upholder?

upholder has 3 syllables: u-phol-der. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for upholder?

Close synonyms include maintainer, sustainer. 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 upholder a common word?

upholder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.