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DEFINITIONS OF: donor

n person who makes a gift of property

Synonyms:: bestower, conferrer, giver, presenter

Examples:: show 13 examples...; hide 13 examples...; Andrew Carnegie
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919); Peter Cooper
United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883); Ezra Cornell
United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874); Solomon Guggenheim
United States philanthropist; son of Meyer Guggenheim who created several foundations to support the arts (1861-1949); John Harvard
American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638); Milton Snavely Hershey
United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945); Johns Hopkins
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873); Andrew William Mellon
United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937); Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896); First Viscount Nuffield
British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963); John Davison Rockefeller
United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937); Commodore Vanderbilt
United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877); Elihu Yale
English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; abnegator
one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something; almsgiver
a person who gives alms; Indian giver
an offensive term for someone who asks you to return a present he has given you; altruist, philanthropist
someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being; settlor, trustor
(law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee; contributor, subscriber
someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money; subsidiser, subsidizer
someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy; tipper
a person who leaves a tip

Type of:: benefactor, helper
a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)

n (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)

Types:: blood donor
someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions; organ donor
someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation; universal donor
a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types

Type of:: benefactor, helper
a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)

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