ADVOCATE
Definition:
- [noun] a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
Synonyms: advocator, proponent, exponent
- [noun] a lawyer who pleads cases in court
Synonyms: counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader
- [verb] push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"
Synonyms: recommend, urge
- [verb] speak, plead, or argue in favour of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house"
Synonyms: preach
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Related Words:
- sermonize, sermonise, preachify, moralize, moralise
- apologist, vindicator, justifier
- constitutionalist
- Darwinian
- democrat, populist
- federalist
- Gnostic
- humanist
- ideologist, ideologue
- internationalist
- irredentist, irridentist
- isolationist
- Jansenist
- Maoist
- Marxist
- nationalist
- neoclassicist
- neutralist
- nullifier
- partisan, zealot, drumbeater
- partitionist
- Platonist
- pro-lifer
- presenter, sponsor
- protectionist
- republican
- ritualist
- ruralist
- secessionist
- secularist
- separatist, separationist
- spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice
- suffragist
- supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
- supremacist
- teleologist
- Thatcherite
- unilateralist
