ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Upholder

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Upholder is a noun meaning Someone who upholds something.

Meaning

Someone who upholds something.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster.

Example Sentences

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[.]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include upbearer, upholdster, stayer, maintainer, upholster, upstander.

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