almsgivers

noun

plural of almsgiver
as in fairy godmothers

Related Words

Relevance

Dissimilar Words

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for almsgivers
  1. fairy godmothers
  2. sugar daddies
  3. donors
  4. philanthropists
  5. benefactors
Noun
  • Storybook performances are the heartbeat of March Madness, but unlike the actual Cinderella, college basketball teams with aspirations to make a splash in the Big Dance don’t have fairy godmothers to cover the costs of running a basketball program.
    — Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And with that, the modern Cinderella story continues—proving that sometimes, magic is less about fairy godmothers and more about persistence, pivots, and the courage to start building your own AI Agent.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Definition of fairy godmothers
Noun
  • What was once an eye-catching clique of wayward teens bathed in purple hues has metamorphosed into a barren hellscape rife with drug-smuggling cartels, pistol-packin’ pimps, sugar daddies with mummification kinks and online streamers.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 24 May 2026
  • Sanders needs Alabama’s gravitas or Texas Tech’s sugar daddies.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2025
Definition of sugar daddies
Noun
  • The group's donors include tech billionaire Chris Larsen and several renewable energy companies.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Even some of the bathrooms bear plaques from donors eager to get their name somewhere in the building.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of donors
Noun
  • But for other philanthropists, extensive overhead often means a tendency to delay.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Stewart performed at the Southampton home of philanthropists Bob and Lauren Day Roberts to benefit TeachRock, the national education nonprofit founded by Steven Van Zandt.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of philanthropists
Noun
  • After Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s popular Democratic governor, endorsed Stevens last week, El-Sayed explained the choice as the inevitable product of the two women’s benefactors.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • Working with patrons Anadol counters that anyone can have free access to the models his studio develops, and that there's nothing new about contemporary artists' relationships with rich and powerful benefactors.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 29 July 2026
Definition of benefactors
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

almsgiver
almsgivers
almsgiving
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Almsgivers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/almsgivers. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

Copy Citation
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

7 Pairs of Commonly Confused Words

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

The Longest Long Words List

It's a Scorcher! Words for the Summer Heat

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Words of the Week - Aug. 7

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

7 Pairs of Commonly Confused Words

The Longest Long Words List

It's a Scorcher! Words for the Summer Heat
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
fridge-magnet-letters
Drop a Letter Quiz August 2026 Drop a letter from a word to make a totally diffe...
See All