English noun: advocate |
1. | advocate (person) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea |
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| Synonyms | advocator, exponent, proponent |
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| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | admirer, apologist, booster, champion, constitutionalist, Darwinian, democrat, drumbeater, federalist, friend, Gnostic, humanist, humanitarian, ideologist, ideologue, internationalist, interpreter, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, Jansenist, justifier, libertarian, Maoist, Marxist, nationalist, neoclassicist, neutralist, nullifier, partisan, partitionist, Platonist, populist, presenter, pro-lifer, protagonist, protectionist, representative, republican, ritualist, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separationist, separatist, spokesperson, sponsor, suffragist, supporter, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist, vindicator, voice, zealot |
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2. | advocate (person) a lawyer who pleads cases in court |
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| Synonyms | counsel, counsellor, counselor, counselor-at-law, pleader |
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| Broader (hypernym) | attorney, lawyer |
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| Domain category | jurisprudence, law |
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English verb: advocate |
1. | advocate (communication) push for something |
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| Samples | The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day.
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| Synonyms | recommend, urge |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Broader (hypernym) | advise, propose, suggest |
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2. | advocate (communication) speak, plead, or argue in favor of |
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| Samples | The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house.
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| Synonyms | preach |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE. Somebody ----s to somebody |
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| Broader (hypernym) | exhort, press, urge, urge on |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | moralise, moralize, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
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