EPIGONE Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

epigone

noun

ˈe-pə-ˌgōn

Definition of epigone

as in adherent

one who follows the opinions or teachings of another few of director Alfred Hitchcock's many epigones possess quite the same wit or style as the master

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Recent Examples of epigone But clearly no cautious epigone, Dawson responded to Dvorak’s charge with results that are entirely his own. — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023 That became the conventional wisdom once their stateside epigones took up the cry. — Tom Carson, New York Times, 1 June 2016

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Sloganeering was the lingua franca of what adherents referred to as the Stanley Opportunity.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
Baric worked closely with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many adherents to the lab-leak theory posit as the source of the pandemic; one contingent thinks that Baric might have been the creator of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

Definition of adherent

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As a disciple of Brian Flores, new defensive coordinator Daronte Jones is expected to run a highly aggressive, creative and unpredictable defense that applies a lot of pressure on opposing quarterbacks.

— Mike Jones, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Ng began learning tai chi in 1989 from Master Gene Chen, a disciple of Grandmaster Feng ZhiQiang.

— Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 13 July 2026

Definition of disciple

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Exhibited for the first time outside of Sarajevo, the churning Socialist Realist homage invokes Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People in figuring partisans heroically overcoming their would-be Nazi aggressors.

— Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026
Reynolds tracks the willingness of northern partisans—Carl Schurz, Horace Greeley, Lyman Trumbull, and even Sumner himself—to abandon that cause by the dwindling references to Jamestown and Plymouth.

— James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

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