exponent

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
  2. noun someone who expounds and interprets or explains
  3. noun a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself

Etymology

From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- (“out, away”) + pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

advocate, advocator, proponent

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