noun
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
• Hyponyms:
↑apologist, ↑vindicator, ↑justifier, ↑constitutionalist, ↑Darwinian, ↑democrat, ↑populist, ↑federalist, ↑Gnostic, ↑humanist, ↑humanitarian, ↑ideologist, ↑ideologue, ↑internationalist, ↑irredentist, ↑irridentist, ↑isolationist, ↑Jansenist, ↑libertarian, ↑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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.