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Meaning of ALTRUIST

Pronunciation:  'altrooist

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[n]  someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being
 

ALTRUIST is a 8 letter word that starts with A.

 

 Synonyms: philanthropist
 
 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

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Al"tru*ist\, n.
One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to {egoist}.

 

 

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