philanthropist
English Thesaurus
1. someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being (noun.person)
instance hyponym | : | andrew carnegie, carnegie, |
definition | : | United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cooper, peter cooper, |
definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cornell, ezra cornell, |
definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | guggenheim, solomon guggenheim, |
definition | : | United States philanthropist; son of Meyer Guggenheim who created several foundations to support the arts (1861-1949) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | harvard, john harvard, |
definition | : | American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hershey, milton snavely hershey, |
definition | : | United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hopkins, johns hopkins, |
definition | : | United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alfred bernhard nobel, alfred nobel, nobel, |
definition | : | Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | elihu yale, yale, |
definition | : | English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721) (noun.person) |
derivation | : | altruism, selflessness, |
definition | : | the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | altruistic, selfless, |
definition | : | showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others (adj.all) |
derivation | : | altruism, selflessness, |
definition | : | the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others (noun.attribute) |
derivation | : | altruistic, selfless, |
definition | : | showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others (adj.all) |
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