upholder
noun
upholder is a noun meaning “Someone who upholds something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-P-H-O-L-D-E-R, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of upholder is upholders.
What does upholder mean?
noun
- 1
Someone who upholds something.
an upholder of ethical principles
- 2
obsoleteA dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of upholder
- upholders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is upholder?
Upholder appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does upholder come from?
From uphold + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).