fan base

noun

plural fan bases

: a group of fans for a particular sport, musical group, celebrity, book or film franchise, etc.

… the Los Angeles Lakers and the Milwaukee Bucks—the last two NBA champions—had fan bases spending the most money on team merchandise and gear.

—Corey Davis

Yet her three albums with the Epic label failed to earn her a popular audience, beyond country's traditional fan base …

—Martha A. Hostetter

But sales figures don't fully capture the fan base among shojo readers, who can whip through a volume in half an hour in a bookstore and often pass along copies to friends.

—Sarah Glazer

The fervent passion of [Justin] Bieber's fan base almost obscured the rampant self-indulgence of his hour-and-a-half set.

—Ben Fisher

Examples of fan base in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If Judge wasn’t going to be on the roster, players like Rice would be looked upon by the organization and its fan base to come up clutch. — Scott Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

With the Red Sox trailing after losing the opener of the best-of-three Wild Card Series against the Yankees 9-0, Gray will face a fan base on Wednesday night that gave him the Bronx brush-off in 2017 and 2018. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

From a middle-class Massachusetts family, Cook first took the mic in Boston as a teenager, skyrocketing to fame by the mid-2000s with a uniquely hands-on approach to building his fan base on MySpace. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026

Founded in 2022, Ip said that while the Sacramento restaurant has a longer history and stronger connection with its customers, Roseville had a loyal fan base. — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1974, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fan base

• abase
• airspace
• apace
• backspace
• biface
• birthplace
• blackface
• boldface
• bookcase
• braincase
• briefcase
• carcase