secret admirer
noun
a person who is romantically attracted to someone else but shows it only in a way that does not reveal their own identity, as by sending anonymous gifts or messages.
secret admirers
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pluralof secret admirer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Deaton said the app remains popular — more than 725 students at her school are signed up — and many of the posts reflect tortured teenage romantics and secret admirers.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2015
When I first posted about Steph and Natalie back in May I mentioned that some of us secret admirers were trying to talk them into doing a calendar.
From Time Magazine Archive
The topic of the show was secret admirers, and the guest, misled to assume that his admirer was a woman, discovered in front of the live audience that it was not.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it had its secret admirers, especially in the academies of Northern France, where its adherents occupied almost every chair of instruction.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
Just at the moment when Erman, followed by his timid friends and secret admirers, was about to cross the threshold, a loud voice was heard to exclaim, "Counsellor Erman!"
From Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by F. Jordan
