Thesaurus results for WORSHIPPER

worshipper

noun

variants or worshiper

Definition of worshipper

as in devotee

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Recent Examples of worshipper Before the service began, a worshiper read aloud the names of some 200 parishioners who perished. — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 The fire caused extensive damage to the synagogue and a worshipper sustained minor injuries. — ABC News, 19 June 2026 The worshiper was praying outside the Baitul Mamur Mosque and Community Center on Glenmore Ave. — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026 The fire caused widespread damage and injured one worshipper. — Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 14 Dec. 2025

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Noun

Once inside, actors like Dominic Sessa, Stavros Halkias, and Nico Parker, supporting her boyfriend Cooper Hoffman, who stars in the film as OpenAI president and Altman devotee Greg Brockman, took their seats.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 6 Oct. 2026
Some at the memorial took solace in seeing so many like-minded devotees come out to the serene mountain setting to remember the avian matriarch.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of devotee

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Racial idolaters like Duncan, Monica McNutt, Angel Reese, Jemele Hill, Nancy Armour and others will never admit fault because of how deeply their resentment of Clark's success runs.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
An angel then killed 185,000 Assyrian idolaters.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026

Definition of idolater

Noun

Self also spoke to the fans and answered a few questions after practice.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2026
After most of the sellout crowd filed out Wednesday, one solitary Sox fan stood at his seat under the press box, shouting obscenities about the Guardians and the city of Cleveland.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of fan

Noun

The Industry actress, 29, got soaked in fake blood for her role in the horror-action flick as Maria Reaves (the younger sister to protagonist Asia Reaves, played by Zazie Beetz), as did Graham, 56, who plays a satanic cultist.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 5 Apr. 2026
There’s an incredible sequence where Zazie Beetz’s character fights cultists with a flaming axe.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of cultist

Noun

In the ‘90s, Golod worked with Pet Television Network as co-chairman and co-owner of a cable and satellite service aimed toward animal enthusiasts.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Snowboarders and skiing enthusiasts from around the world travel there for the pillowy snow on its mountains.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of enthusiast

Noun

What’s left is a modern tale of school bullying, with a Margaret who is both a zealot and also, thanks to Sloyan, much more human than in the past.

— William Earl, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Coverage of the story dovetailed with a hail of memes and insinuations online that Crockett is a zealot or a pretend cowboy out of his depth.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of zealot

Noun

Bowie was an admirer or German Expressionism, dating back to his years in Berlin in the ’70s, and also of School of London artists Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach — the influences of which can all be seen in his own work.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Long an admirer of Walt Disney, Bakker sought to build a Christian version of Disneyland.

— John Wigger, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

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