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

Nevertheless, the couple believes the fan base will still show up Thursday. — Chantz Martin Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

When Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly seemed to hold up his Alpine teammate Franco Colapinto in the closing stages of the Spanish Grand Prix in early September, Colapinto’s fan base was not happy. — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 28 Oct. 2026

Carpenter and King have preferred to keep their batches small and their marketing limited to word of mouth, but that word is spreading, especially across their ravenous genre-loving fan base. — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Those who try to exploit their fan base will probably get burned. — Davis Noell, Fortune, 25 Oct. 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