English noun: exponent |
| 1. | exponent (person) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea |
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| Synonyms | advocate, advocator, 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. | exponent (person) someone who expounds and interprets or explains |
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| Broader (hypernym) | intellect, intellectual |
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| 3. | exponent (communication) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself |
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| Synonyms | index, power |
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| Broader (hypernym) | mathematical notation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | degree, log, logarithm |
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