English > benefactor: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help). |
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| Synonym | helper |
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| Narrower | benefactress | A woman benefactor |
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| bondsman, bondswoman | someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else |
| donor, giver, presenter, bestower, conferrer | person who makes a gift of property |
| donor | (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host) |
| fairy godmother | A generous benefactor |
| good Samaritan | A person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble |
| humanitarian, do-gooder, improver | someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms |
| liberator | someone who releases people from captivity / captivity or bondage |
| obliger, accommodator | someone who performs a service or does a favor |
| offerer, offeror | someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection |
| patron, sponsor, supporter | someone who supports or champions something |
| provider | someone who provides the means for subsistence |
| savior, saviour, rescuer, deliverer | A person who rescues you from harm or danger / danger |
| sparer | someone who refrains from injuring or destroying |
| uncle | A source of help and advice and encouragement |
| Broader | good person | A person who is good to other people |
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| Spanish | ayudador, ayudante, benefactor, bienhechor |
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| Catalan | ajudador, ajudant, benefactor, benfactor |
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