upholder

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8

Definition of upholder

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone who upholds something.
    “an upholder of ethical principles”
    “Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]”
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noun

  1. Someone who upholds something.
    “an upholder of ethical principles”
    “Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]”
  2. (obsolete)A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster.

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Etymology

From uphold + -er.

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