| has gloss | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being
philanthropist, altruist |
| lexicalization | eng: altruist |
| lexicalization | eng: philanthropist |
| subclass of | (noun) person who makes a gift of property
giver, conferrer, bestower, presenter, donor |
| Note: 26 other subclass(es) ommited in the following list |
| has subclass | c/American philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Argentine philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Austrian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Bangladeshi philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Belgian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Brazilian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/British philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Cameroonian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Chilean philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Colombian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Cypriot philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Danish philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Dutch philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Egyptian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Ethiopian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Filipino philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/German philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Greek philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Guinean philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Hong Kong philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Igbo philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Indian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Italian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Jewish philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Lebanese philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Lithuanian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Luxembourgian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Massachusetts philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Mexican philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Norwegian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Palestinian philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Philanthropists from Melbourne |
| has subclass | c/Polish philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Portuguese philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/South African philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Spanish philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Swiss philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Taiwanese philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Turkish philanthropists |
| has subclass | c/Welsh philanthropists |
| has instance | (noun) United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie |
| has instance | (noun) United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883)
Cooper, Peter Cooper |
| has instance | (noun) United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)
Ezra Cornell, Cornell |
| has instance | (noun) United States philanthropist; son of Meyer Guggenheim who created several foundations to support the arts (1861-1949)
Solomon Guggenheim, Guggenheim |
| has instance | (noun) American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)
Harvard, John Harvard |
| has instance | (noun) United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945)
Hershey, Milton Snavely Hershey |
| has instance | (noun) United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)
Johns Hopkins, Hopkins |
| has instance | (noun) United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)
Andrew W. Mellon, Andrew Mellon, Mellon, Andrew William Mellon |
| has instance | (noun) Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)
Alfred Nobel, Nobel, Alfred Bernhard Nobel |
| has instance | (noun) British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)
First Viscount Nuffield, Nuffield, William Richard Morris |
| has instance | (noun) United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)
John Davison Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Rockefeller |
| has instance | (noun) United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt, Commodore Vanderbilt |
| has instance | (noun) English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)
Yale, Elihu Yale |