| backer | | |
| n. (person) | 1. angel, backer | invests in a theatrical production. |
| ~ sponsor, supporter, patron | someone who supports or champions something. |
| mastermind | | |
| n. (person) | 1. conceiver, mastermind, originator | someone who creates new things. |
| ~ creator | a person who grows or makes or invents things. |
| ~ beginner, founder, founding father, father | a person who founds or establishes some institution.; "George Washington is the father of his country" |
| ~ groundbreaker, innovator, pioneer, trailblazer | someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art. |
| ~ mover, proposer | (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion. |
| ~ proposer, suggester | someone who advances a suggestion or proposal.; "the suggester of this absurd strategy was a fool" |
| n. (person) | 2. brain, brainiac, einstein, genius, mastermind | someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality.; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein" |
| ~ intellectual, intellect | a person who uses the mind creatively. |
| ~ prodigy | an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration.; "she is a chess prodigy" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. direct, engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize | plan and direct (a complex undertaking).; "he masterminded the robbery" |
| ~ plan | make plans for something.; "He is planning a trip with his family" |
| ~ choreograph | plan and oversee the development and details of.; "The meeting between the two Presidents had been carefully choreographed" |
| supporter | | |
| n. (person) | 1. admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter | a person who backs a politician or a team etc..; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" |
| ~ advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea. |
| ~ anglophil, anglophile | an admirer of England and things English. |
| ~ believer, truster | a supporter who accepts something as true. |
| ~ boswell | a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds. |
| ~ cheerleader | an enthusiastic and vocal supporter.; "he has become a cheerleader for therapeutic cloning" |
| ~ confederate | a supporter of the Confederate States of America. |
| ~ corporatist | a supporter of corporatism. |
| ~ enthusiast, partizan, partisan | an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity. |
| ~ francophil, francophile | an admirer of France and everything French. |
| ~ free trader | an advocate of unrestricted international trade. |
| ~ functionalist | an adherent of functionalism. |
| ~ jacobite | a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts. |
| ~ loyalist, stalwart | a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt). |
| ~ new dealer | a supporter of the economic policies in the United States known as the New Deal. |
| ~ graecophile, philhellene, philhellenist | an admirer of Greece and everything Greek. |
| ~ mainstay, pillar | a prominent supporter.; "he is a pillar of the community" |
| ~ roundhead | a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War. |
| ~ seconder | someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote. |
| ~ shavian | an admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works. |
| ~ endorser, indorser, ratifier, subscriber | someone who expresses strong approval. |
| ~ well-wisher, sympathiser, sympathizer | someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful. |
| ~ toaster, wassailer | someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture. |
| ~ maintainer, sustainer, upholder | someone who upholds or maintains.; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy" |
| ~ verifier, voucher | someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement. |
| ~ whig | a supporter of the American Revolution. |
| n. (person) | 2. patron, sponsor, supporter | someone who supports or champions something. |
| ~ benefactor, helper | a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help). |
| ~ backer, angel | invests in a theatrical production. |
| ~ godfather | someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild. |
| ~ godparent | a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism. |
| ~ guarantor, warranter, warrantor, surety | one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another. |
| ~ patroness, patronne | a woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron. |
| ~ pillar of strength, tower of strength | a person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort. |
| n. (person) | 3. assistant, help, helper, supporter | a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work" |
| ~ coadjutor | an assistant to a bishop. |
| ~ worker | a person who works at a specific occupation.; "he is a good worker" |
| ~ accomplice, confederate | a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan). |
| ~ auxiliary, aide | someone who acts as assistant. |
| ~ attendant, attender, tender | someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another. |
| ~ bat boy | (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment. |
| ~ dental assistant | an assistant to a dentist. |
| ~ deputy, lieutenant | an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent. |
| ~ actor's assistant, dresser | a wardrobe assistant for an actor. |
| ~ event planner | someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials). |
| ~ facilitator | someone who makes progress easier. |
| ~ flower girl | a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession. |
| ~ girl friday | a female assistant who has a range of duties. |
| ~ enforcer, hatchet man | one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior. |
| ~ cat's-paw, pawn, instrument | a person used by another to gain an end. |
| ~ birthing coach, doula, labor coach, monitrice | an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes. |
| ~ underboss | an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate). |
| ~ fashion model, manakin, mannequin, manikin, mannikin, model | a woman who wears clothes to display fashions.; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" |
| ~ poser, model | a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor.; "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos" |
| ~ paraprofessional | a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional. |
| ~ powder monkey | someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship). |
| ~ prompter, theater prompter | someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech. |
| ~ chief assistant, man friday, right-hand man | the most helpful assistant. |
| ~ secretarial assistant, secretary | an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization. |
| ~ sidesman | (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church. |
| ~ subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier | an assistant subject to the authority or control of another. |
| ~ water boy, waterer | an assistant who supplies drinking water. |
| ~ whipper-in | huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. garter, supporter | a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve). |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body). |
| n. (artifact) | 5. athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, supporter, suspensor | a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise. |
| ~ man's clothing | clothing that is designed for men to wear. |
| ~ protective garment | clothing that is intended to protect the wearer from injury. |
| behind | | |
| n. (body) | 1. arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ torso, trunk, body | the body excluding the head and neck and limbs.; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" |
| adj. | 2. behind | having the lower score or lagging position in a contest.; "behind by two points"; "the 8th inning found the home team trailing" |
| ~ down | being or moving lower in position or less in some value.; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today" |
| adv. | 3. behind | in or to or toward the rear.; "he followed behind"; "seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front"; "the final runners were far behind" |
| adv. | 4. behind | remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from.; "when he died he left much unfinished work behind"; "left a large family behind"; "the children left their books behind"; "he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind" |
| adv. | 5. behind, slow | of timepieces.; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" |
| adv. | 6. behind | in or into an inferior position.; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers" |
| adv. | 7. behind, behindhand, in arrears | in debt.; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills" |
| rear | | |
| n. (group) | 1. rear | the back of a military formation or procession.; "infantrymen were in the rear" |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit.; "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes" |
| n. (location) | 2. back end, backside, rear | the side of an object that is opposite its front.; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel" |
| ~ nape, nucha, scruff | the back side of the neck. |
| ~ side, face | a surface forming part of the outside of an object.; "he examined all sides of the crystal"; "dew dripped from the face of the leaf" |
| ~ rearward | direction toward the rear.; "his outfit marched to the rearward of the tank divisions" |
| n. (location) | 3. back, rear | the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer.; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store" |
| ~ position, place | the particular portion of space occupied by something.; "he put the lamp back in its place" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. back, rear | the side that goes last or is not normally seen.; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" |
| ~ side | an extended outer surface of an object.; "he turned the box over to examine the bottom side"; "they painted all four sides of the house" |
| ~ after part, stern, poop, tail, quarter | the rear part of a ship. |
| ~ empennage, tail assembly, tail | the rear part of an aircraft. |
| v. (motion) | 5. rear, rise up | stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds.; "The horse reared in terror" |
| ~ rear back | rear backwards on its hind legs.; "the frightened horse reared back" |
| ~ straighten | get up from a sitting or slouching position.; "The students straightened when the teacher entered" |
| v. (social) | 6. bring up, nurture, parent, raise, rear | bring up.; "raise a family"; "bring up children" |
| ~ fledge | feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight. |
| ~ cradle | bring up from infancy. |
| ~ grow up | become an adult. |
| ~ foster | bring up under fosterage; of children. |
| v. (stative) | 7. lift, rear, rise | rise up.; "The building rose before them" |
| ~ appear, seem, look | give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" |
| ~ hulk, tower, loom, predominate | appear very large or occupy a commanding position.; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" |
| v. (motion) | 8. erect, rear | cause to rise up. |
| ~ pitch, set up | erect and fasten.; "pitch a tent" |
| ~ lift, elevate, raise, get up, bring up | raise from a lower to a higher position.; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" |
| ~ cock up, prick up, prick | raise.; "The dog pricked up his ears" |
| v. (creation) | 9. erect, put up, raise, rear, set up | construct, build, or erect.; "Raise a barn" |
| ~ construction, building | the act of constructing something.; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" |
| ~ build, construct, make | make by combining materials and parts.; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" |
| adj. | 10. rear, rearward | located in or toward the back or rear.; "the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward side" |
| ~ back | related to or located at the back.; "the back yard"; "the back entrance" |
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