Word Meanings - HENCHMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term. (more info) & AS. hengest horse + E. man, and meaning, a groom. AS. hengest is

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HENCHMAN)

• Follower
• Partisan
• adherent
• disciple
• henchman
• retainer
• pursuer
• attendant

Related words: (words related to HENCHMAN)

• ADHERENTLY
  In an adherent manner.
• DISCIPLESS
  A female disciple.
• PARTISAN
  1. An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. "The violence of a partisan." Macaulay. Both sides had their partisans in the colony. Jefferson. The commander of a body of detached
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• ADHERENT
  Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. (more info) 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. 2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
• HENCHMAN
  An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term. (more info) & AS. hengest horse + E. man, and meaning, a groom. AS. hengest is
• DISCIPLESHIP
  The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. Jer. Taylor.
• DISCIPLE
  One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior. The
• PARTISANSHIP
  The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
• PURSUER
  A plaintiff; a prosecutor. (more info) 1. One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
• RETAINER
  1. One who, or that which, retains. 2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. 3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell. 4. The act of a
• FOLLOWER
  1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. 2. A sweetheart; a beau. A. Trollope. The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
• CONDISCIPLE
  A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
• SEMIADHERENT
  Adherent part way.
• INADHERENT
  Free; not connected with the other organs. (more info) 1. Not adhering.