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Type Words
Synonyms admirer, booster, champion, friend, supporter
Type of proponent, advocator, advocate, exponent
Has types boswell, cheerleader, confederate, corporatist, endorser, enthusiast, whig, anglophil, anglophile, believer, verifier, voucher, wassailer, well-wisher, francophil, francophile, free trader, functionalist, graecophile, indorser, jacobite, loyalist, mainstay, maintainer, new dealer, partisan, partizan, philhellene, philhellenist, pillar, ratifier, roundhead, seconder, shavian, stalwart, subscriber, sustainer, sympathiser, sympathizer, toaster, truster, upholder
Type Words
Synonyms agonist
Type of fictional character, fictitious character, character
Has types antihero

Examples of protagonist

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When your protagonist has a chainsaw for an arm, you know you're in for a treat.
From the time.com
The more Hobby stories he did, the more Fitzgerald liked his amoral protagonist.
From the online.wsj.com
The game's protagonist, Kyle Hyde, is a down-and-out ex-New York City detective.
From the philly.com
Instead, the movie stays small and, like its protagonist, fearfully constricted.
From the thestate.com
This time, his brave protagonist must deal with a string of shocking beheadings.
From the jsonline.com
A few pages in, our protagonist learns that a woman he has bedded is 18, not 22.
From the bloomberg.com
So the protagonist Robert Neville is portrayed as both the hero and the villain.
From the infowars.com
Palmer served as the show's second-most prominent protagonist, after Jack Bauer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
That aside, the very fact that there is a schoolboy protagonist is a good start.
From the guardian.co.uk
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  • 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"
  • The principal character in a work of fiction
  • (protagonism) advocacy: active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
  • A protagonist (from Ancient Greek u03C0u03C1u03C9u03C4u03B1u03B3u03C9u03BDu03B9u03C3u03C4u03AEu03C2 (protagonistes), meaning "player of the first part, chief actor") is the main character in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
  • Protagonist is a 2007 documentary film about the parallels between human life and Euripidean dramatic structure. The film was written and directed by Jessica Yu.
  • (Protagonists (Xenosaga)) The following is a list of major characters in the Xenosaga series.
  • (The Protagonists) The Protagonists (I protagonisti) is a 1968 Italian drama film directed by Marcello Fondato. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.
  • The main character in a literary work or drama; A leading person in a contest; a principal performer; An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action
  • The hero or central character of a literary work. In accomplishing his or her objective, the protagonist is hindered by some opposing force either human (one of Batman's antagonists is The Joker), animal (Moby Dick is Captain Ahab's antagonist in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"), or natural (the ...