BESTOWER Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

bestower

noun

Definition of bestower

as in giver

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Recent Examples of bestower The snooty pooches will premiere on the streamer in late January/early February for the 151st showing of the best-in-class Best in Show-bestower. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026

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Noun

The world’s largest givers This week, Bridgespan also updated its rankings of the world’s largest corporate and institutional givers, based on average annual giving between 2020 and 2024.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026
There’s also a gap between how givers and recipients think about AI involvement.

— Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of giver

Noun

Harvard and its peer institutions won’t suddenly stop caring about their largest benefactors.

— Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
Now, RadarOnline has confirmed that some of the celebration was paid by a Russian benefactor, oligarch Umar Kremlev, a close ally of Vladimir Putin.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of benefactor

Noun

If an individual contributor directs three agents, who owns their output?

— Keith Ferrazzi, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
But Georgetown found that by 2025, DHS had contributed over 3 million profiles to CODIS, and ICE alone added 920,000, making the agency the primary contributor to the nation's criminal DNA database.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026