Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that gives aid, especially financial aid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Literally, a well-doer; one who does good.
- noun One who confers a benefit; a kindly helper: as, “the great benefactor of mankind,”
- noun One who makes a benefaction to or endows a charitable or other institution; one who makes a bequest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who confers a benefit or benefits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Somebody who gives one a
gift . Usually refers to someone who givesmoney to acharity or another form of organization.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Again, it's probably not illegal, but you'd think that whoever's taking the money would want to know that their benefactor is an anti-Semitic, homophobic whack-job with delusions of grandeur, not to mention the cosmic e-mail box for Hitler and Stalin.
June 2004 2004
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Voxlauer watches as his Jewish friend and benefactor is driven to ruin.
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Hm. Depends on whether son/nephew/nepotism-benefactor is getting a paycheck or not.
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Then, a shadowy benefactor from the east made a copy available to me.
VinceKeenan.com 2009
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And that our ally and former benefactor is significantly stronger than us and all the non allied nations is as it should be.
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And I'm pretty sure that my mysterious benefactor is someone who reads this journal.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway marykaykare 2008
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West of Scotland supplied with work by a benevolent aristocrat, his expectation that a grateful peasantry will bless their benefactor is rudely dashed (II, 32).
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To boil his career, beliefs, and impact down to a rich benefactor is to discredit a great contributor to American history.
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For I have beheld the atrocities committed by the one we call a benefactor.
Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007
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The main benefactor from abroad has, since 1924, been the Rockefeller philanthropic empire.
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