ardent admirer

ardent admirer

One who is a devoted follower or supporter of someone or something. Although the monarchy is no longer relevant in leading the country, the king still has many ardent admirers.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • one of the faithful
  • so much for
  • so much for (someone or something)
  • so much for sb/sth
  • a back number
  • back number
  • moot point
  • moot point, a
  • moot question
  • pertain to
References in periodicals archive
He was an ardent admirer of Multatuli, whom he offered part of his fortune.
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Even the most ardent admirer of the Pakistani captain wouldn't have dared dreaming about Misbah's and Richards' names being mentioned in the same breath one day.
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The Essex star, 30, has been bombarded with hideous comments and even death threats from Justin's hardcore Twitter followers - enough to put off even the most ardent admirer.
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With Mallika's recent histrionics, it is no secret that she is an ardent admirer of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and even went to the extent of recording a dissyllabic video message for the politician's birthday.
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-- Aspiring novelist Quinn Gilman-Forlini, an ardent admirer of ''The Catcher in the Rye,'' wouldn't mind following in its author's footsteps.
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I have always been an ardent admirer of fairytale-based movies.
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On one excursion to the shops an ardent admirer even risked the ire of other motorists in the car park as he stopped and waited until I had parked up and got out just to tell me how impressed he was, and ask if it was as fast as it looked.
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As an ardent admirer, I pray to God that you may live many more years to guide the Indian film industry and aspiring young people, who want to take up acting as a profession.
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Pyongyang s official government website recently posted a parody of the South Korean music video phenomenon "Gangnam Style" that mocked Park as an ardent admirer of her father s repressive and autocratic rule.
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Since his tour of duty in Kosovo in 1999, he has been an ardent admirer of Medecins Sans FrontiE res and he has held several benefit concerts for the medical NGO among other initiatives.
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Roosevelt was an ardent admirer of The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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Even the most ardent admirer of what it has achieved for its members, is likely to (at least) raise an eyebrow on reading about the latest campaign to emerge from the British Medical Association.
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The engravings were a result of the collaboration between Picasso and his close friend, an ardent admirer of his work, an extraordinary editor and also a famous art dealer of the period, Ambroise Vollard.
(CUL) PICASSO'S SUITE VOLLARD ENGRAVINGS ON SHOW IN ISTANBUL
With my sincere regards, Your ardent admirer, Stanley Jones
Big papa, Stanley and me