noun
Meaning 1
A person who donates blood for use in transfusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
blood donor
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/ˈblʌdˌdəʊ.nə(ɹ)/
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noun
Meaning 2
someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: donor
Narrower terms: universal donor
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кръводарител (krǎvodaritel) — person who donates blood
- Chinese Mandarin: 獻血者 /献血者 (xiànxùezhě) — person who donates blood
- Danish: bloddonor — person who donates blood
- Dutch: bloeddonor — person who donates blood
- Dutch: bloedgever — person who donates blood
- Finnish: verenluovuttaja — person who donates blood
- French: donneur de sang — person who donates blood
- French: donneuse de sang — person who donates blood
- German: Blutspender — person who donates blood
- German: Blutspenderin — person who donates blood
- Greek: αιμοδότης (aimodótis) — person who donates blood
- Italian: donatore di sangue — person who donates blood
- Italian: datore di sangue — person who donates blood
- Japanese: 献血者 (kenketsusha) — person who donates blood
- Korean: 헌혈자 (heonhyeolja) — person who donates blood
- Northern Kurdish: xwîn bexşîner — person who donates blood
- Lithuanian: kraujo donoras — person who donates blood
- Macedonian: крводарител (krvodaritel) — person who donates blood
- Norwegian Bokmål: blodgiver — person who donates blood
- Norwegian Nynorsk: blodgjevar — person who donates blood
- Polish: krwiodawca — person who donates blood
- Polish: krwiodawczyni — person who donates blood
- Portuguese: doador de sangue — person who donates blood
- Romanian: donator de sânge — person who donates blood
- Swahili: mchangiaji damu — person who donates blood
- Swedish: blodgivare — person who donates blood
- Telugu: రక్తదాత (raktadāta) — person who donates blood
- Ukrainian: до́нор кро́ві (dónor króvi) — person who donates blood
- Ukrainian: до́норка кро́ві (dónorka króvi) — person who donates blood