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Another word for benefactor

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Noun

  1. A person who supports or champions an activity, cause, or institution, for example

    See also:

    help

  2. A person who gives to a charity or cause

    See also:

    give

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Another word for benefactor

Noun
  1. See also:

    patron

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • After thanking his benefactor and dropping off his bike for repairs, he stopped for a quick bite to eat.

  • He founded the university of Jena and was a benefactor to that of Leipzig.

  • Williams, who was a generous benefactor of St John's College, Cambridge, died on the 25th of March 1650.

  • He is kind, he is one of God's chosen, he's a benefactor, he once gave me ten rubles, I remember.

  • And they with their simple, kind, firm faces surrounded his benefactor on all sides.

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