fan base

[ fan beys ]

noun

1. the fans of a celebrity, team, media franchise, etc., when considered collectively: The studio marketed the sequels heavily to the franchise’s established fan base.

   The fan base was crushed when the team moved to a different city.

   The studio marketed the sequels heavily to the franchise’s established fan base.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fan base¹

An Americanism dating back to 1975–80

Example Sentences

“I want a chance to win, and I don’t want to be a player who signs a long-term deal and then is resented, either by the fan base or the organization or on my end for having my performance slip below what my contract dictates,” Bauer said.

From Washington Post

Musk built a cult-like fan base that will follow him into the infernos of hell or the vacuum of space or wherever else he wants to go and back again.

From Fortune

He steadily built a dedicated fan base to fund his comics through Kickstarter.

From Washington Post

He knows that it would turn off the fan base and that the Texans’ rebuilding effort would take even longer if Watson isn’t on the team.

From Washington Post

He’s also poised to be the future of the genre as he continuously shatters streaming records for country music and goes viral on apps like TikTok, maintaining the fierce loyalty of his largely Gen Z and millennial fan base.

From Washington Post

The female fan base tends to hold steady at 38 percent, according to Amanda Regan, a spokeswoman for Feld Motor Sports.

From The Daily Beast

Morgan hopefully has a beloved support network, and of course a large fan base to cheer him on.

From The Daily Beast

No one agreed more than the members of an ardent and motivated fan base within the CIA.

From The Daily Beast

What better way to reconnect with his fan base than to play the heartthrob he was once best known as?

From The Daily Beast

Even my social networks were deleted, my videos removed, the fan base I had built lost forever.

From The Daily Beast