Noun: follower
| Singular | follower |
| Plural | followers |
Sample Sentences
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I have over 50 followers on Twitter, but all my tweets only get 10 likes.
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Talking bout these other rappers getting old is even getting old / Worrying about your followers, you need to get your dollars up [2012, “Amen”, in Dreamchasers 2, performed by Meek Mill ft. Drake:]
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Shah won over the Nepali youth vote with his outsized social media presence. His Instagram account has over 1.2 million followers, while his Facebook page has 3.8 million. [2026 March 11, Chad de Guzman, “Who Is Balendra Shah, the Rapper On Track to Become Nepal’s Next Prime Minister”, in TIME, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2026:]
Nouns inflected like follower
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English folwer, folwere, folewer, from Old English folgere (“follower; attendant; disciple”), equivalent to follow + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulger, West Frisian folger, Dutch volger, German Folger, Swedish följare. See: Middle English Nouns '
folwer', Old English Nouns '
folgere', Dutch Nouns '
volger', Swedish Nouns '
följare'.
Verbs referencing "follower"
French Nouns
follower, German Nouns
Follower.