Having worked at the cafeteria for ten years, Mary was a big proponent of meatloaf.
Source: tatoeba (5891227)
Proponent
//pɹəˈpəʊnənt//
Synonyms for "proponent" (33 found)
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Related words (16)
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10 entriesTranslations
29 translations across 16 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- دَاعِم noun (one who supports something)
- مُؤَيِّد noun (one who supports something)
Bulgarian
1 entries- привърженик noun (one who supports something)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 支持者 noun (one who supports something)
Czech
2 entries- hlasatel noun (one who supports something)
- zastánce noun (one who supports something)
Dutch
1 entries- voorstander noun (one who supports something)
French
2 entries- avocat noun (one who supports something)
- partisan noun (one who supports something)
German
2 entries- Befürworter noun (one who supports something)
- Fürsprecher noun (one who supports something)
Greek
1 entries- υποστηρικτής noun (one who supports something)
Icelandic
4 entries- flutningsmaður noun (one who supports something)
- málsvari noun (one who supports something)
- stuðningsmaður noun (one who supports something)
- talsmaður noun (one who supports something)
Kazakh
1 entries- жақтаушы noun (one who supports something)
Polish
4 entries- orędowniczka noun (one who supports something)
- orędownik noun (one who supports something)
- zwolenniczka noun (one who supports something)
- zwolennik noun (one who supports something)
Russian
2 entries- защи́тник noun (one who supports something)
- пропонент noun (one who supports something)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- заговорник noun (one who supports something)
Spanish
2 entries- defensor noun (one who supports something)
- proponente noun (one who supports something)
Swedish
1 entries- förespråkare noun (one who supports something)
Ukrainian
2 entries- прихи́льник noun (one who supports something)
- прихи́льниця noun (one who supports something)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
The Guinness World Record for the longest temper tantrum occurred when individual Berber languages were added to the website tatoeba.org, deeply upsetting an enthusiastic proponent of Standard Algerian Berber.
Source: tatoeba (8614745)
Lee is a longtime proponent of UBI.
Source: tatoeba (9834517)
Tom is a proponent of green consumerism.
Source: tatoeba (10734502)
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