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Noun advocate has 2 senses
- advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent - a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
 
--1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul 
--1 has particulars: |   | apologist, vindicator, justifier; constitutionalist; Darwinian; democrat, populist; federalist; Gnostic; humanist; ideologist, ideologue; internationalist; irredentist, irridentist; isolationist; Jansenist; Maoist; Marxist; nationalist; neoclassicist; neutralist; nullifier; partisan, zealot, drumbeater; partitionist; Platonist; pro-lifer; presenter, sponsor; protectionist; republican; ritualist; ruralist; secessionist; secularist; separatist, separationist; spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice; suffragist; supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend; supremacist; teleologist; Thatcherite; unilateralist |   
 - advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader - a lawyer who pleads cases in court
 
--2 is a kind of lawyer, attorney 
  
Verb advocate has 2 senses
- recommend, urge, advocate - push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"
 
--1 is one way to propose, suggest, advise 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Something ----s something 
 Somebody ----s that CLAUSE 
 - preach, advocate - speak, plead, or argue in favour of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house"
 
--2 is one way to urge, urge on, press, exhort 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE 
 Somebody ----s that CLAUSE 
 Somebody ----s to somebody 
  
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