benefactornoun [ C ]
uk/ˈben.ɪ.fæk.tər/us/ˈben.ə.fæk.tɚ/female also benefactress,someone who gives money to help an organization, society, or person
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Supporters, members & defenders
- -arian
- -ista
- adherent
- apologist
- apparatchik
- cadre
- camp follower
- campaigner
- cardholder
- champion
- chaperone
- cohort
- company man
- contributor
- evolutionist
- initiate
- new/fresh blood idiom
- referee
- renegade
- respecter
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Examples from literature
- And herewith greetings and heartfelt thanks, for I know your members to be great benefactors to suffering humanity.
- He was my benefactor.
- In many villages there are old almshouses founded by pious benefactors for "poor brethren and sisters."
- Sometimes I knew the hand by which assistance was sent, but at other times my benefactors remained unknown.
- These had been bestowed on the monastic churches by benefactors, who considered that what was used in the service of God should be the best which man could offer.