Word Meanings - UPHOLDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. 2. An undertaker, or provider for funerals. The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. Gay. 3. An upholsterer. 4. One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UPHOLDER)

• Advocate
• Pleader
• counsellor
• upholder
• propagator
• promoter
• supporter
• countenancer
• defender
• maintainer
• Benefactor
• Friend
• contributor
• well-wisher
• favorer
• well-doer
• patron

Related words: (words related to UPHOLDER)

• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• PATRONIZING
  Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.
• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• PATRONYMIC
  Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
• PATRONIZER
  One who patronizes.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• PATRONAL
  Patron; protecting; favoring. Sir T. Browne.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• PLEADER
  One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.
• FRIEND
  freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another
• DEFENDER
  One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.
• PROMOTER
  1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. 2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation,
• BENEFACTOR
  One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.
• FAVORER
  One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.
• FRIENDING
  Friendliness. Shak.
• MAINTAINER
  One who maintains.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• PATRONATE
  The right or duty of a patron; patronage. Westm. Rev.
• PATRONIZE
  1. To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid. The idea has been patronized by two States only. A. Hamilton. 3. To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as,
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• BEFRIEND
  To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.
• BACKFRIEND
  A secret enemy. South.
• UNFRIENDLY
  1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor. 2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. -- Un*friend"li*ness, n.
• ENPATRON
  To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize. Shak.