Associations to the word «Adherent»

Wiktionary

ADHERENT, adjective. Adhesive, sticking to something.
ADHERENT, adjective. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
ADHERENT, adjective. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
ADHERENT, noun. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

Dictionary definition

ADHERENT, noun. Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another.
ADHERENT, adjective. Sticking fast.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky