partisans

• acolytes
• activists
• addicts
• adherents
• admirers
• advocates
• afficionados
• aficionados
• apostles
• apparatchiki
• apparatchiks
• backers
• bigots
• boosters
• buffs
• bugs
• camp followers
• champions
• chauvinists
• converts
• crusaders
• cultists
• devotees
• disciples
• doctrinaires
• dogmatists
• dogmatizers
• dreamers
• enthusiasts
• epigones
• evangelists
• faddists
• faithfuls
• fanatics
• fanciers
• fans
• fiends
• flunkeys
• flunkies
• followers
• fools
• freaks
• habitues
• hangers-on
• heads
• henchmen
• hounds
• idealists
• idealogues
• ideologists
• ideologues
• idolaters
• idolators
• idolizers
• jingoists
• junkies
• lackeys
• lickspittles
• liege men
• lovers
• loyalists
• maniacs
• mavens
• mavins
• militants
• minions
• missionaries
• myrmidons
• nationalists
• nuts
• patrons
• promoters
• proselytizers
• pupils
• purists
• racialists
• racists
• red hots
• rooters
• satellites
• scholars
• sectarians
• sexists
• soldiers
• stalwarts
• stooges
• students
• suckers
• supporters
• supremacists
• sycophants
• toadies
• true believers
• visionaries
• votaries
• votarists
• well-wishers
• worshipers
• worshippers
• yes-men
• zealots

• apostates
• coryphaei
• dabblers
• defectors
• dilettantes
• dilettanti
• freethinkers
• latitudinarians
• leaders
• liberals
• nonmilitants
• renegades
• traitors
• turncoats

• noun
  1. An adherent to a party or faction.
  2. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
  3. A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
  4. The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
  5. A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting.
  6. A soldier armed with such a weapon.

• The partisans of both parties clashed during the heated debate, each group defending their own views.
• Despite the efforts to remain neutral, the media outlets were often seen as biased towards partisans of a specific ideology.
• The partisans gathered in large numbers to support their candidate, hoping to influence the outcome of the election.
• The political divide was so deep that even the smallest issue became a point of contention for partisans.
• Partisans on both sides of the argument accused each other of distorting the facts to serve their own agendas.

backers

habitues

idealogues

ideologists

ideologues

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