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English
Etymology
From philanthropy + -ist; compare French philanthrope.
Noun
philanthropist (plural philanthropists)
- A person who loves humankind in general.
- A person or institution who seeks to improve the world, especially by monetary gifts.
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Translations
person who loves mankind
- Afrikaans: filantroop (af)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: філантроп m (filantróp), філантропка f (filantrópka)
- Bulgarian: филантроп (bg) m (filantrop), човеколюбец m (čovekoljubec)
- Catalan: filantrop (ca) m
- Czech: lidumil (cs) m
- Danish: filantrop (da) c
- Dutch: filantroop (nl) m
- Finnish: filantrooppi (fi)
- French: philanthrope (fr) m or f
- Galician: filántropo m, filántropa f
- German: Philanthrop (de) m, Philanthropin (de) f, Menschenfreund (de) m, Menschenfreundin (de) f
- Greek: φιλάνθρωπος (el) m (filánthropos)
- Hungarian: filantróp (hu), emberbarát (hu)
- Italian: filantropo (it) m
- Macedonian: човекољубец m (čovekoljubec)
- Occitan: filantròp (oc) m
- Polish: filantrop (pl) m, filantropka f
- Portuguese: filantropo (pt) m
- Russian: филантро́п (ru) m (filantróp)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: filàntrop (sh) m, filàntropkinja (sh) f, čovjekoljúbac (sh) m
- Slovak: ľudomil m
- Spanish: filántropo (es) m
- Swedish: filantrop (sv) c
- Turkish: filantrop (tr)
- Ukrainian: чоловіколю́б m (čolovikoljúb), людолю́б m (ljudoljúb)
- Volapük: (♂♀) menilöfan, (♂) menihilöfan, (♀) menijilöfan
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