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

You get put in front of so many different audiences, and that creates a fan base, and your fan base creates a demand to see you. —Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 16 Apr. 2026

These restrictions aren’t arbitrary numbers pulled out of a hat just to infuriate the fan base or micromanage a crisis. —Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026

But past success should not earn them a pass from explaining the franchise’s direction to a restless, frustrated fan base. —Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026

Huntr/x’s path toward demon eradication gets complicated when a demon boy band comes on the scene and starts attracting a fan base of their own. —James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Apr. 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