Meaning of ALTRUIST
| Pronunciation: | | 'altrooist
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| | Definition: | | [n] someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being |
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| | Synonyms: | | philanthropist |
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| | See Also: | | Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Andrew W. Mellon, Andrew William Mellon, Carnegie, Commodore VAnderbilt, Cooper, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Cornell, donor, Elihu Yale, Ezra Cornell, First Viscount Nuffield, giver, Guggenheim, Harvard, Hershey, Hopkins, John D. Rockefeller, John Davison Rockefeller, John Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mellon, Milton Snavely Hershey, Nobel, Nuffield, Peter Cooper, presenter, Rockefeller, Solomon Guggenheim, Vanderbilt, William Richard Morris, Yale | |
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| | Definition: | | \Al"tru*ist\, n.
One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to {egoist}.
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