follower
follower
noun
/ˈfɒləʊə(r)/
1 ​a person who supports and admires a particular person or set of ideas
the followers of Mahatma Gandhi
SEE ALSO camp follower
TOPICS Religion and festivals C1
Collocations
adjective
ardent
close
enthusiastic
… of followers
band
verb + follower
be
become
have
preposition
among somebody’s follower
follower of
2 a person who is very interested in a particular activity and follows all the recent news about it
keen followers of football
a follower of fashion
This book is only for the dedicated follower of modernist architecture.
3 ​a person who does things after somebody else has done them first
She is a leader, not a follower.
​4 a person who chooses to regularly receive somebody’s messages using a social media service
a celebrity with thousands of followers on Twitter
COMPARE followee
TOPICS Phones, email and the internet B2