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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An advocate of a particular ideology, especially an official exponent of that ideology.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as ideologist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun an adherent to or advocate of some ideology{3}.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person advocating some ideology, especially as an official or the most eminent advocate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an advocate of some ideology

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French idéologue, back-formation from idéologie, ideology; see ideology.]

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From French idéologue, from Ancient Greek.

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