CAMP FOLLOWER Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

camp follower

noun

Definition of camp follower

as in satellite

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Recent Examples of camp follower Republican politicians have been calling on Biden to curb inflation, but there isn’t much a president can really do except raise taxes, which of course the GOP and their Democratic camp follower Joe Manchin oppose. — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 July 2022 There’s the near-noirish play between dark and light captured by Tripe in an Indian temple or the Yvonne De Carlo expression (speaking of almost noirish) on the face of a camp follower in a Fenton Crimean War photograph. — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018 Her mother, Sophie Delaborde, the daughter of a bird seller on the Rue de Rivoli, was a camp follower of the Napoleonic troops in Madrid. — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018 The trio of revisionist powers includes Russia, China and Iran, along with camp followers like Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and Syria. — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018 Suspicion quickly flared into insurgency, and when the British pulled out of Kabul in 1842 with a convoy of 16,000 troops and camp followers, only a single survivor (the assistant surgeon William Brydon) reached the border town of Jalalabad alive. — Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011

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Noun

The helicopter had difficulty reaching them, Downpatrick didn’t have his satellite phone, the Wi-Fi cables in the camp below had been damaged due to an avalanche and there was no way to communicate with emergency services.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2026
Their influence also extended beyond their original military missions and into satellite launches, human spaceflight and unmanned aviation.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of satellite

Noun

Earlier that evening during his last supper with his disciples, we are told Jesus himself had fervently prayed.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2026
Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt star as Miranda’s assistants, aspiring journalist Andy Sachs and Runway disciple Emily Charlton, respectively.

— Jami Ganz, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2026

Definition of disciple

Noun

The attack comes a day after a roadside bomb struck a security forces convoy in the northwestern Hangu district and killed six soldiers.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
Latin became the language of administration in the western half of the empire—the language used by politicians, soldiers, and intellectuals.

— Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of soldier

Noun

The last of Lila and Amisha’s henchmen has fled with the remaining supply of poison aerosol, intending to detonate it, on Amisha’s orders, at a nightclub.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
After crash landing on the dark world directly onto the homing beacon, EO and his crazy crew are apprehended by a gang of warrior henchmen and hauled into the throne room to face the wicked alien ruler who is imprisoned in anger and hate.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of henchman

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Breitbart has also published an article skewering Hamilton for suggesting that adherents of other religions might get to Heaven.

— Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
Its adherents believe that the relentless pursuit of maximizing individual freedom and rights has come at the cost of community, religion, and traditional norms.

— Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of adherent

Noun

For its sycophants, LIV Golf was a new flavor in the vanilla world of professional golf.

— Brody Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Our state is under siege by the skilled sycophants who surround the president and use his base desires as cover for their own destructive agendas.

— Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of sycophant

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