aficionado (n.)
- abettor
- admirer
- advocate
- amateur
- angel
- apologist
- attender
- audience
- authority
- backer
- buff
- bug
- champion
- connoisseur
- crank
- critic
- defender
- dependence
- devotee
- dilettante
- endorser
- enthusiast
- expert
- exponent
- fan
- fanatic
- freak
- frequenter
- habitue
- lover
- mainstay
- maintainer
- monomaniac
- nut
- partisan
- patron
- promoter
- protagonist
- pundit
- reliance
- savant
- scholar
- second
- seconder
- sectary
- sider
- specialist
- spectator
- sponsor
- stalwart
- standby
- support
- supporter
- sustainer
- sympathizer
- technician
- theatergoer
- upholder
- visitor
- votary
- well-wisher
- zealot
