Other forms: admirers
An admirer is somebody who thinks highly of another. A great admirer, one of her admirers, a secret admirer.
In the plain sense it means somebody who respects a person's work: a long-standing admirer of her writing. The romantic sense is the other one, and a secret admirer is the traditional sender of an unsigned Valentine. Note admire, admiration; and that the word comes from the Latin for wondering at, so an admirer is literally somebody looking at you in wonder.
1nounadmirerSomebody who thinks highly of another.
“She was a great admirer of his early paintings and bought several of them.”
2nounromanticallySomebody romantically interested in another.
“The singer had many admirers, but she only had eyes for her childhood sweetheart.”
admirer is a person who admires.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)mey-
Latin
admīror
Middle French
admirer
Middle English
admyren
English
admire
English, today
admirer
Built from
From admire + -er. admire comes from Middle English admyren, borrowed from Middle French admirer, from Latin admīror, from ad + mīror (“wonder at”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA