PROTAGONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protagonist mean? 

• PROTAGONIST (noun)
  The noun PROTAGONIST has 2 senses:

1. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

2. the principal character in a work of fiction

  Familiarity information: PROTAGONIST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTAGONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who backs a politician or a team etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter

Context example:

they are friends of the library

Hypernyms ("protagonist" is a kind of...):

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protagonist"):

loyalist; stalwart (a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt))

Whig (a supporter of the American Revolution)

verifier; voucher (someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement)

maintainer; sustainer; upholder (someone who upholds or maintains)

toaster; wassailer (someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture)

sympathiser; sympathizer; well-wisher (someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful)

endorser; indorser; ratifier; subscriber (someone who expresses strong approval)

Shavian (an admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works)

seconder (someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote)

Roundhead (a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War)

mainstay; pillar (a prominent supporter)

Graecophile; philhellene; philhellenist (an admirer of Greece and everything Greek)

New Dealer (a supporter of the economic policies in the United States known as the New Deal)

Jacobite (a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts)

functionalist (an adherent of functionalism)

free trader (an advocate of unrestricted international trade)

Francophil; Francophile (an admirer of France and everything French)

enthusiast; partisan; partizan (an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity)

corporatist (a supporter of corporatism)

Confederate (a supporter of the Confederate States of America)

cheerleader (an enthusiastic and vocal supporter)

Boswell (a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds)

believer; truster (a supporter who accepts something as true)

anglophil; anglophile (an admirer of England and things English)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The principal character in a work of fiction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

agonist; protagonist

Hypernyms ("protagonist" is a kind of...):

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protagonist"):

antihero (a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine))