noun
someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑altruist
• Derivationally related forms: ↑altruistic (for: ↑altruist), ↑altruism (for: ↑altruist), ↑philanthropy
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Carnegie, ↑Andrew Carnegie, ↑Cooper, ↑Peter Cooper, ↑Cornell, ↑Ezra Cornell, ↑Guggenheim, ↑Solomon Guggenheim, ↑Harvard, ↑John Harvard, ↑Hershey, ↑Milton Snavely Hershey, ↑Hopkins, ↑Johns Hopkins, ↑Mellon, ↑Andrew Mellon, ↑Andrew W. Mellon, ↑Andrew William Mellon, ↑Nobel, ↑Alfred Nobel, ↑Alfred Bernhard Nobel, ↑Nuffield, ↑William Richard Morris, ↑First Viscount Nuffield, ↑Rockefeller, ↑John D. Rockefeller, ↑John Davison Rockefeller, ↑Vanderbilt, ↑Cornelius Vanderbilt, ↑Commodore Vanderbilt, ↑Yale, ↑Elihu Yale
Useful english dictionary. 2012.