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Definition: Benefactor |
BenefactorNoun1. A person who helps people or institutions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "benefactor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Benefactor \Ben`e*fac"tor\, noun [Latin expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | BENEFACTOR, n. One who makes heavy purchases of ingratitude, without, however, materially affecting the price, which is still within the means of all. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: BenefactorSynonym: helper (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Benefactor | Noun: benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae; salt of the earth; (good man); auxiliary. |
Good Man | Model, paragon; (perfection); good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph, angel; innocent; saint; (piety); benefactor; philanthropist; Aristides; noble liver, pattern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Benefactor |
| English words defined with "benefactor": benefact, benefactress ♦ To his head ♦ Welldoer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "benefactor": Androcles and the Lion, Apothecary ♦ BACCHUS, BENEFACTOR, BLERIOT ♦ FAGAN ♦ Mehetabeel ♦ PHARAOH ♦ Restitutor ♦ UNGRATEFUL MAN. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Benefactor" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (benefactor, beneficent, welfare). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | El Benefactor (1973) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bob Nishimoto and Mr. Pauley, owner of Coconut Island, a benefactor of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.Credit: Small World. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Macaulay | A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers. |
Robert Green Ingersoll | The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | A man may owe honour and respect to an ancient, or wise man; defence to his child or friend; relief and support to the distressed; and gratitude to a benefactor, to such a degree, that all he has, all he can do, cannot sufficiently pay it: but all these give no authority, no right to any one, of making laws over him from whom they are owing. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Look, my benefactor, no bread, no fire. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESTITUTOR, n. Benefactor; philanthropist. |
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| "Benefactor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Benefactor" is used about 154 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 154 | 25,326 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "benefactor": nameless benefactor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
benefactor | 37 |
benefactor estado | 9 |
benefactor dlc | 4 |
benefactor smithsonian young | 3 |
benefactor convict pips | 3 |
benefactor fund uk wildlife | 2 |
benefactor fund wildlife | 2 |
benefactor program | 2 |
benefactor club downline | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "benefactor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mirëbërës (beneficial, charitable, well doer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فاعل خير (alms, helpful, philanthropist), منعم (donor, giver, granter, well heeled), هبة خيرية, المحسن (humanitarian, improver, philanthropist, well doer), المتبرع (contributor, volunteer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | благотворител. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 恩人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | patron (fellow, patron, sponsor), dobrodinec. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نیکوکار (Beneficent, Righteous, Samaritan, Upright), ولینعمت (Patron), واقف , صاحب خیر, بانی خیر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hyväntekijä (benefactress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bienfaiteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wohltäter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευεργέτησ, δωρητήσ (donor, presenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטיב (beneficial), מ "ב (contributor, donor), 'ומל חס", "יב (benevolent, donor, generous, munificent, openhanded), "בן (donor, philanthropist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jótevő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | dermawan (bounteous, bountiful, charitable, donor, generous, philanthropist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | benefattore (patron). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 益'与える人 , 施主 (chief mourner, donor), 恩人 (patron). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | お"じ" (patron), せしゅ (chief mourner, donor), えき'あたえるひと. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 은인. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mialagh (benefactory, bountiful, good-natured, humane, lenient, philanthropic, philanthropist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enefactorbay benfeitor (ameliorator, patron, well doer). (various references) binefãcãtor (beneficent, beneficial, beneficient, bracing, salutary, well doer, wholesome), ctitor (founder). (various references) благодетель (do gooder, well doer). (various references) mecena (maecenas), dobrotvor. (various references) benefactor (beneficent, welfare). (various references) välgörare. (various references) ผู้ที่สนับสนุนทางการเงิน. (various references) bağışçı, velinimet (do gooder), iyiliksever (beneficent, benevolent, bighearted, humane, humanitarian, kind, philanthropic, philanthropical), hayırsever (beneficent, benevolent, charitable, philanthropic, philanthropical, philanthropist). (various references) благодійник (almsman), доброчинець. (various references) người l m ơn (benefactress), ân nhân người l m việc thiện. (various references) noddwr (patron, protector), elusennwr (almoner), cymwynaswr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | benefactorum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "benefactor": benefactors. (additional references) | |
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"Benefactor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bebefactor, benefactory, benefator, benefector, benfactor, benifactor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "benefactor" (pronounced be"nufa'kter) |
| 6 | -u f a' k t er | malefactor. |
| 4 | -a' k t er | chiropractor, contractor, subcontractor. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, actor, character, collector, compactor, conductor, connecter, connector, constrictor, constructor, defector, detector, detractor, director, doctor, erector, factor, Hector, inductor, injector, inspector, instructor, lector, nectar, objector, predictor, Proctor, projector, prospector, protector, reactor, rector, refractor, sector, semiconductor, Specter, spectre, stricter, superconductor, tractor, vector, Victor. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: cabernet, carotene. | |
-3 letters: acetone, baronet, centare, corneae, crenate, enactor, enforce, ocreate, oftener, reboant, reenact. | |
-4 letters: aerobe, afreet, atoner, banter, beacon, beaten, beater, before, befret, berate, bereft, boater, borane, borate, boreen, canter, cantor, carbon, careen, carnet, carton, cenote, center, centra, centre, cerate, cetane, coatee, coater, confab, confer, contra, corban, cornea, cornet, craton, create, ecarte. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: benefactors. | |
+4 letters: enforceability. | |
+5 letters: comfortableness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 6E 65 66 61 63 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -. . ..-. .- -.-. - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100110 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e n e f a c t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 006E 0065 0066 0061 0063 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36718071726769868184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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