Hypernyms for "proponent"
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Hypernyms
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admirer
apologist
booster
champion
constitutionalist
Darwinian
democrat
drumbeater
federalist
friend
Gnostic
humanist
humanitarian
ideologist
ideologue
internationalist
interpreter
irredentist
irridentist
isolationist
Jansenist
justifier
libertarian
Maoist
Marxist
nationalist
neoclassicist
neutralist
nullifier
partisan
partitionist
Platonist
populist
presenter
pro-lifer
protagonist
protectionist
representative
republican
ritualist
ruralist
secessionist
secularist
separationist
separatist
spokesperson
sponsor
suffragist
supporter
supremacist
teleologist
Thatcherite
unilateralist
vindicator
voice
zealot
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.