Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun exponent

3 senses of exponent

Sense 1
advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent -- (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; "there was too much for one person to do")

Sense 2
exponent -- (someone who expounds and interprets or explains)
       => intellectual, intellect -- (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Sense 3
exponent, power, index -- (a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself)
       => mathematical notation -- (a notation used by mathematicians)