/dowˈnɚ/ - [downer] - do•nor
We found 8 definitions of donor from 5 different sources.
NounPlural: donors |
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donor - person who makes a gift of property | ||
giver, presenter, bestower, conferrer | ||
benefactor, helper a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | ||
abnegator one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something | ||
almsgiver a person who gives alms | ||
indian giver an offensive term for someone who asks you to return a present he has given you | ||
altruist, philanthropist someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | ||
settlor, trustor (law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee | ||
contributor, subscriber a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | ||
subsidiser, subsidizer someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | ||
donor - (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host) | ||
benefactor, helper a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | ||
medical specialty, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" | ||
blood donor someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions |