Altruist

Definition: Altruist

Altruist

Noun

1. Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being.

Date "altruist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Synonym: Altruist

Synonym: philanthropist (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Benevolence	Good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant; altruist.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Altruist

Non-English Usage: "Altruist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (altruist, altruistic, selfless), German (altruist), Romanian (altruist, altruistic, generous, unselfish).

Domain	Title
Books	The Altruist in Politics [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) The End of an Altruist (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Altruist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Altruist" is used about 3 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%	3	202,518

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.

Language		Translations for "altruist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		altruïs. (various references)

Albanian		altruist (altruistic, selfless). (various references)

Arabic		‏محب للغير, ‏مؤثر (acting, affective, effective, effectual, efficacious, emotional, influential, moving, operative, poignant, stirring, touching). (various references)

Bulgarian		алтруист. (various references)

Czech		altruista. (various references)

Dutch		altruïst. (various references)

French		altruiste (altruistic). (various references)

German		Altruist. (various references)

Greek		φιλλάλοσ, αλτρουιστήσ. (various references)

Hebrew		או�"ב �"זולת. (various references)

Hungarian		önzetlen ember. (various references)

Indonesian		altruis. (various references)

Italian		altruista (selfless, self-sacrificing, unselfish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		愛他主義者 , 利他主義者 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		りたしゅぎしゃ, あいたしゅぎしゃ. (various references)

Manx		altrooaghteyr. (various references)

Pig Latin		altruistay

Portuguese		altruísta (altruistic, selfless, unselfish). (various references)

Romanian		altruist (altruistic, generous, unselfish). (various references)

Russian		альтруист. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		altruista. (various references)

Spanish		altruista (altruistic, unselfish). (various references)

Turkish		başkalarını düşünen (altruistic), özgeci. (various references)

Ukranian		альтруїст. (various references)

Vietnamese		người vị tha, người theo chủ nghĩa vị tha. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "altruist": altruistic, altruistically, altruists. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Altruist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: altrurist, alturist, castroist. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "altruist" (pronounced 'Al"tru*ist'): Abacist, Abaist, Abiogenist, Abolitionist, Abortionist, Absist, Abstractionist, Academist, Accompanist, Accordionist, Acephalist, Acolothist, Acolythist, Acosmist, Acquist, Actualist, Adeptist, Adiaphorist, Adonist, Adoptionist, Adventist, Aerologist, Aeroplanist, Affectationist, Agamist, Agist, Agonist, Agrammatist, Agricolist, Agriculturalist, Agriculturist, Agriologist, Agronomist, Agrostologist, Aladinist, Alarmist, Alchemist, Alcoranist, Algebraist, Algologist, Alienist, Alkoranist, Allegorist, Allodialist, Allopathist, Alopecist, Alpinist, Altarist, Ambitionist, Amethodist. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: titulars, ultraist.
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-r-s-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: rituals, starlit, titular, turista.
	-2 letters: artist, aurist, lustra, lutist, ritual, strait, strati, trails, traits, trials, ultras, urials.
	-3 letters: airts, alist, arils, astir, atilt, auris, lairs, laris, liars, liras, litas, rails, rials, sault, sitar, stair, start, stilt, stria, strut, sturt, sural, sutra, sutta, tails, talus, tarsi, tarts, tauts, tilts, tirls, trail, trait, trial, trust.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-r-s-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: altruists, literatus, ritualist, tutorials, ultraists.
	+2 letters: altruistic, elutriates, illustrate, lustrating, lustration, mutilators, naturalist, neutralist, ritualists, staurolite, stimulator, stipulator, stridulate, testicular, titularies, tribulates, tutelaries, ultraistic.
	+3 letters: articulates, brutalities, cultivators, elutriators, flirtatious, gustatorily, gutturalism, illustrated, illustrates, illustrator, literatures, lustrations, multitracks, naturalists, neutralists, restimulate, reticulates, ritualistic, spiritualty, statutorily, staurolites, staurolitic, stimulators, stimulatory, stipulators, stipulatory, stridulated, stridulates, subliterate, sublittoral, tranquilest, ultralights, unstartling, voluntarist.
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