adherent

English

Alternative forms

• adhærent (archaic)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)

1. Adhesive, sticking to something.

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2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
3. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.

Related terms

• adhere
• adherence
• adhesive
• coherent
• inherent

Translations

adhesive

• Bulgarian: лепкав (bg) (lepkav)
• Catalan: adherent (ca) m and f, adhesiu (ca)
• German: klebend (de), anhaftend (de)

• Hungarian: ragadós (hu)
• Scottish Gaelic: leanmhainn (gd)
• Spanish: adhesivo (es)

that has the quality of clinging

• Bulgarian: прилепнал (bg) (prilepnal)
• Catalan: adherent (ca) m and f
• German: anhängend (de)

• Scottish Gaelic: leanmhainn (gd)
• Spanish: adherente (es)

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• French: adhérent
• Interlingua: adherente

• Italian: aderente (it)

Noun

adherent (plural adherents)

1. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

Translations

a person who has membership in some group

• Bulgarian: привърженик (bg) (privǎrženik)
• Czech: příznivec (cs) m (to a principle or rule), stoupenec (cs) m, člen (cs), přívrženec (cs) m
• French: adhérent (fr)
• Georgian: მომხრე (ka) (momkhre)

• German: Mitglied (de) n, Anhänger (de) m
• Greek: οπαδός (el) (opadhós) m
• Hungarian: tag (hu), követő (hu)
• Interlingua: adherente
• Italian: aderente (it)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: adhèrent (sh) m, slȅdbenīk (sh) m/sljȅdbenīk (sh) m, prìstalica (sh) m and f, prȉstaša (sh) m

  Cyrillic: адхѐрент (sh) m, сле̏дбенӣк (sh) m/сље̏дбенӣк (sh) m, прѝсталица (sh) m and f, при̏сташа (sh) m

• Spanish: adherente (es) m

Anagrams

• neatherd

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Catalan

Adjective

adherent m, f (masculine and feminine plural adherents)

1. adherent

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Latin

Verb

adhērent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adhēreō

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /adxěrent/
• Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

Noun

adhèrent m (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)

1. adherent

Declension

    declension of adherent

	singular	plural
nominative	adhèrent	adherenti
genitive	adherenta	adhèrenātā
dative	adherentu	adherentima
accusative	adherenta	adherente
vocative	adherente	adherenti
locative	adherentu	adherentima
instrumental	adherentom	adherentima

Synonyms

• (follower): prìstalica, prȉstaša, slȅdbenīk/sljȅdbenīk