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PHILANTHROPIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being
Synonyms:
altruist; philanthropist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("philanthropist" is a kind of...):
bestower; conferrer; donor; giver; presenter (person who makes a gift of property)
Instance hyponyms:
Andrew Carnegie; Carnegie (United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919))
Cooper; 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))
Cornell; 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))
Guggenheim; Solomon Guggenheim (United States philanthropist; son of Meyer Guggenheim who created several foundations to support the arts (1861-1949))
Harvard; John Harvard (American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638))
Hershey; 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))
Hopkins; 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 Mellon; Andrew W. Mellon; Andrew William Mellon; Mellon (United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937))
Alfred Bernhard Nobel; Alfred Nobel; Nobel (Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896))
First Viscount Nuffield; Nuffield; William Richard Morris (British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963))
John D. Rockefeller; John Davison Rockefeller; Rockefeller (United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937))
Commodore Vanderbilt; Cornelius Vanderbilt; Vanderbilt (United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877))
Elihu Yale; Yale (English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721))
Derivation:
philanthropy (voluntary promotion of human welfare)
