"fan base" meaning in English

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          "name": "Fandom",
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        {
          "text": "Building a fan base is crucial to career development of a pop musician.",
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        "The fans of a thing or person taken as a group."
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          "word": "fanbase"
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        {
          "word": "fandom"
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        {
          "word": "fanship"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "word": "粉絲群"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fěnsīqún",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "word": "粉丝群"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "word": "粉絲圈"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fěnsīquān",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "word": "粉丝圈"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "word": "fanikunta"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "word": "fanikanta"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
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          "word": "fanit"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "word": "kannattajakunta"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "fan sō",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "word": "ファン層"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "word": "fanbase"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "fanbase"
        }
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  "word": "fan base"
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      ],
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    {
      "word": "fanbase"
    },
    {
      "word": "fandom"
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    {
      "word": "fanship"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "word": "粉絲群"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fěnsīqún",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "word": "粉丝群"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "word": "粉絲圈"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fěnsīquān",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "word": "粉丝圈"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "word": "fanikunta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "word": "fanikanta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "fanit"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "word": "kannattajakunta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fan sō",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "word": "ファン層"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
      "word": "fanbase"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fans of a thing or person taken as a group",
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        "common-gender"
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      "word": "fanbase"
    }
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