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    Exponent

    Definitions

    1 | noun | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea 2 | noun | someone who expounds and interprets or explains 3 | noun | a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself

    Pronunciation

    'eksp, ohnuhnt (IPA: ˈɛkspˌoʊnənt)

    Hyphenation

    ex-po-nent (8 letters | 3 syllables)

    First known use in English

    1706 (320 years ago)

    Word origin

    Latin

    Word frequency history

    Inflected form

    exponents

    Synonyms

    advocate | advocator | proponent | index | power (total: 5)

    Narrower terms

    admirer | apologist | booster | champion | constitutionalist | Darwinian | democrat | drumbeater | federalist | friend | Gnostic | humanist | humanitarian | ideologist | ideologue | ... (total: 59)

    Broader terms

    individual | mortal | person | somebody | someone | soul | intellect | intellectual | mathematical notation (total: 9)

    Rhymes

    (none among common words)

    Lexically close words

    exponential

    Anagrams

    (none among common words)

    Translations

    Spanish: | exponente (mathematics) | índice (mathematics) French: | exposant (mathematics) Portuguese: | expoente (mathematics) German: | Exponent (mathematics) | Hochzahl (mathematics) Japanese: | 提唱者 (common noun)

    Other notable uses

    exponent.com | exponent.net | exponent.org | exponent.info | exponent.biz (total: 5)

    Crossword puzzle clues

    Advocate | Mathematical expression | Power symbol | Square figure? (total: 4) (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

    Scrabble score

    17 (International English) | 17 (North American English)