adherent

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Meanings

Adjective

  • Adhesive, sticking to something.
  • Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
  • Attaching or pressing against a different organ.

Noun

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

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Origin

  • From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō.

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