advocate vs supporter

supporter vs advocate

advocate and supporter both are nouns.

advocate is a verb but supporter is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
advocate	Yes	No	Yes	No
supporter	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, supporter is a hyponym of advocate; that is, supporter is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than advocate:

advocate: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
supporter: a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

Other hyponyms of advocate include apologist, justifier, vindicator, commie, communist, constitutionalist, Darwinian, democrat, populist, fascist, federalist, Gnostic, humanist, humanitarian, ideologist, ideologue, internationalist, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, Jansenist, libertarian, Maoist, Marxist, nationalist, neoclassicist, neutralist, nullifier, drumbeater, partisan, zealot, partitionist, Platonist, pro-lifer, presenter, sponsor, protectionist, republican, ritualist, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separationist, separatist, interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice, suffragist, admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist, voice in the wilderness.

advocate (noun)	supporter (noun)
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea	a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)
a lawyer who pleads cases in court	a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise
	a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
	a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
	someone who supports or champions something

advocate (verb)	supporter (verb)
push for something
speak, plead, or argue in favor of

Difference between advocate and supporter

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