noun
Meaning 1
A person who loves humankind in general.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: misanthropist
Standard Lemma guide
philanthropist
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
Meaning 2
A person or institution who seeks to improve the world, especially by monetary gifts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: altruist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: donor, giver, presenter, bestower, conferrer
Narrower terms: 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
History
Etymology
From philanthropy + -ist; compare French philanthrope.
Across languages
Translations
68 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: filantroop — person who loves mankind
- Belarusian: філантроп (filantróp) — person who loves mankind
- Belarusian: філантропка (filantrópka) — person who loves mankind
- Bulgarian: филантроп (filantrop) — person who loves mankind
- Bulgarian: човеколюбец (čovekoljubec) — person who loves mankind
- Catalan: filantrop — person who loves mankind
- Czech: lidumil — person who loves mankind
- Danish: filantrop — person who loves mankind
- Dutch: filantroop — person who loves mankind
- Finnish: filantrooppi — person who loves mankind
- French: philanthrope — person who loves mankind
- Galician: filántropo — person who loves mankind
- Galician: filántropa — person who loves mankind
- German: Philanthrop — person who loves mankind
- German: Philanthropin — person who loves mankind
- German: Menschenfreund — person who loves mankind
- German: Menschenfreundin — person who loves mankind
- Greek: φιλάνθρωπος (filánthropos) — person who loves mankind
- Hungarian: filantróp — person who loves mankind
- Hungarian: emberbarát — person who loves mankind
- Italian: filantropo — person who loves mankind
- Macedonian: човекољубец (čovekoljubec) — person who loves mankind
- Occitan: filantròp — person who loves mankind
- Polish: filantrop — person who loves mankind
- Polish: filantropka — person who loves mankind
- Portuguese: filantropo — person who loves mankind
- Russian: филантро́п (filantróp) — person who loves mankind
- Serbo-Croatian: filàntrop — person who loves mankind
- Serbo-Croatian: filàntropkinja — person who loves mankind
- Serbo-Croatian: čovjekoljúbac — person who loves mankind
- Slovak: ľudomil — person who loves mankind
- Spanish: filántropo — person who loves mankind
- Swedish: filantrop — person who loves mankind
- Turkish: filantrop — person who loves mankind
- Ukrainian: чоловіколю́б (čolovikoljúb) — person who loves mankind
- Ukrainian: людолю́б (ljudoljúb) — person who loves mankind
- Volapük: menilöfan — person who loves mankind
- Volapük: menihilöfan — person who loves mankind
- Volapük: menijilöfan — person who loves mankind
- Afrikaans: filantroop — person who seeks to improve the world
- Arabic: سَخِيّ (saḵiyy) — person who seeks to improve the world
- Catalan: filantrop — person who seeks to improve the world
- Czech: filantrop — person who seeks to improve the world
- Esperanto: filantropo — person who seeks to improve the world
- French: philanthrope — person who seeks to improve the world
- Galician: filántropo — person who seeks to improve the world
- Galician: filántropa — person who seeks to improve the world
- Greek: φιλάνθρωπος (filánthropos) — person who seeks to improve the world
- Hebrew: בעל צדקה — person who seeks to improve the world
- Hebrew: נַדְבָן (nadvan) — person who seeks to improve the world
- Hungarian: filantróp — person who seeks to improve the world
- Hungarian: emberbarát — person who seeks to improve the world
- Italian: filantropo — person who seeks to improve the world
- Ladino: sadikero — person who seeks to improve the world
- Macedonian: добротвор (dobrotvor) — person who seeks to improve the world
- Polish: filantrop — person who seeks to improve the world
- Polish: filantropka — person who seeks to improve the world
- Portuguese: filantropo — person who seeks to improve the world
- Russian: филантро́п (filantróp) — person who seeks to improve the world
- Serbo-Croatian: filàntrop — person who seeks to improve the world
- Serbo-Croatian: filàntropkinja — person who seeks to improve the world
- Spanish: filántropo — person who seeks to improve the world
- Swedish: filantrop — person who seeks to improve the world
- Tamil: வள்ளல் (vaḷḷal) — person who seeks to improve the world
- Turkish: filantrop — person who seeks to improve the world
- Ukrainian: філантро́п (filantróp) — person who seeks to improve the world
- Yiddish: פֿילאַנטראָפּ (filantrop) — person who seeks to improve the world
- Yiddish: בעל־צדקה (baltsdoke) — person who seeks to improve the world
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