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

But a ceiling has remained in place, and breaking through that is essential to galvanizing the fan base — including fundraising for NIL efforts to retain and attract more players. —Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2026

One has a fan base that visits every year. —Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026

And the fan base is still reeling from a trade deadline that saw shooting guard Jared McCain dealt to the Oklahoma City Thunder. —Tony Jones, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026

Now Kylie has followed in Kim’s footprint to forge the biggest online fan base in the family—and lodged herself firmly into household-name, center-of-culture stardom. —Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 11 Mar. 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