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Fan (person)
A fan, sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, such as a band, a sports team, a genre, a book or an entertainer. Collectively, the fans of a particular object or person constitute its fanbase or fandom. They may show their enthusiasm in a variety of ways, such as by promoting the object of their interest, being members of a fan club, holding or participating in fan conventions, or writing fan mail. They may also engage in creative activities ("fan labor") such as creating fanzines, writing fan fiction, making memes or drawing fan art.
==Etymology==
''The Dickson Baseball Dictionary'' cites William Henry Nugent's work asserting that it was derived from ''the fancy'', a term from England referring to the fans of a specific hobby or sport from the early 18th Century to the 19th, especially to the followers of boxing. According to that theory, it was originally shortened to ''fance'' then just to the homonym ''fans''. Merriam-Webster, the Oxford dictionary and other sources define it as a shortened version of the word ''fanatic''. The word first become popular in reference to baseball enthusiasts. (''Fanatic'' itself, introduced into English around 1550, means "marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion". It comes from the Modern Latin ''fanaticus'', meaning "insanely but divinely inspired". The word originally pertained to a temple or sacred place (''fanum'', poetic English ''fane'' ). The modern sense of "extremely zealous" dates from around 1647; the use of ''fanatic'' as a noun dates from 1650.) However, the term "fancy" for an intense liking of something, while being of a different etymology, coincidentally carries a less intense but somewhat similar connotation to "fanatic". The word emerged as an Americanism around 1889.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Vocabularist: are fans fanatical or fanciful? )〕
''Supporter'' is a synonym to "fan" that predates the latter term and as such is still commonly used in British English, especially to denote fans of sports teams. However, the term "fan" has become popular throughout the English-speaking world, including the United Kingdom. The term ''supporter'' is also used in a political sense in the United States, to a fan of a politician, a political party, and a controversial issue.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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