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Meanings of altruist in English

Portuguese
filantropo
Catalan
altruista

Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being.

filantropo
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Examples for "philanthropist"
Examples for "philanthropist"
1
We must go together to the widow; you must play the philanthropist.
Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1
2
He is nothing of a philanthropist in any sense of the word.
Old and New Masters
3
Robert finally throws this accusation into the face of the philanthropist millionaire:
Anarchism and Other Essays
4
It is so easy to be a philosopher-ora philanthropist-ina desert.
One Man in His Time
5
By the time of his arrest, Gao had become a prominent philanthropist.
Reuters
Usage of altruist in English
1
And Mary was no altruist to rejoice over other people's Paris follies.
The Window-Gazer
2
But she's more than an altruist looking to usher in a new era.
Wired
3
Nobody believes or wants to believe in the altruist any longer.
Nobody's Man
4
He was the only altruist Bonaparte said he had ever met in his life.
The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
5
Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.
Orthodoxy
6
You, an altruist, are interested only in a school.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
7
Neither am I a peacemaker or an altruist.
The Window-Gazer
8
The chairman was no altruist in politics.
The Ramrodders: A Novel
9
The altruist and lover winced at this.
The Desert and the Sown
10
Jerris the First was neither a power-mad dictator nor an altruist, although he had been called both.
The Unnecessary Man
11
Yet, withal, David was the true altruist.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Vo...
12
I am no altruist, but I guess I owe something to the race that I leech off of.
My Name is Legion
13
If utility were egoism, how could it be the duty of the altruist to behave like an egoist?
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
14
If you are really the altruist you claim to be, Mr. Vine, you need not fear their destruction.
The Governors
15
He's an idealist and an altruist.
The Vision Splendid
16
Thus the choice between left and right was simple: Do you want to be an altruist or an egoist?
Economics Without Illusions
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Altruist through the time