almsgiver

noun

as in fairy godmother

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  1. fairy godmother
  2. sugar daddy
  3. donor
  4. philanthropist
Noun
  • Miley Cyrus is paying tribute to her late fairy godmother Dolly Parton after her death at age 80.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Dory, who is the baby of her three-kid family, invents friends, villains and a bearded fairy godmother for company.
    — Liz Rosenberg, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of fairy godmother
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  • These are people who are taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from their billionaire sugar daddies, like Harlan Crow.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Sennott plays Danielle, a bisexual college senior who sits shiva with her family after sleeping with her sugar daddy.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 June 2026
Definition of sugar daddy
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  • Republican Party leaders don’t mention Georgia in meeting with donors.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Last year’s 200-plus golfers, sponsors and donors raised nearly $471,000.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of donor
Noun
  • Western philanthropists, on the other hand, are surrounded by mature civil-society groups, and so are more content to just deliver funding through grants.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Last week, Krogan's Quantitative Biosciences Institute received a $46 million grant from the Aligning Research to Impact Autism initiative, funded by philanthropist and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of philanthropist
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