Donor Definition

dōnər
donors
noun
donors
A person who donates; giver.
Webster's New World
One that contributes something, such as money, to a cause or fund.
American Heritage
One from whom blood for transfusion, tissue for grafting, etc. is taken.
Webster's New World
An atom that contributes a pair of electrons to another atom to form a covalent bond with it.
Webster's New World
An element introduced into a semiconductor with a negative valence greater than that of the pure semiconductor.
American Heritage
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adjective
Used for transfusion, implantation, or transplant.
A donor organ.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Donor

Noun

Singular:
donor
Plural:
donors

Origin of Donor

  • From Middle English donoure, donour; from Anglo-Norman donour, from Old French doneur (See French donneur).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Anglo-Norman donour from Latin dōnātor from dōnāre to give donation

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Donor Sentence Examples

  • It takes its name from its donor, the friend of Emerson.

  • The medics were talking about looking in his pockets for an organ donor card.

  • In connexion with the public elementary schools throughout Canada, where the principles of agriculture are taught to some extent, manual training centres, provided out of funds supplied by the same public-spirited donor, are now maintained by local and provincial public school authorities.

  • In 1509 followed the "Assumption of the Virgin" with the Apostles gathered about her tomb, a rich altarpiece with figures of saints and portraits of the donor and his wife in the folding wings, executed for Jacob Heller, a merchant of Frankfort, in 1509.

  • By keeping these distinctions in view, the right of patronage in the case of secular benefices becomes intelligible, being in fact the right, which was originally vested in the donor of the temporalities, to present to the bishop a clerk to be admitted, if found fit by the bishop, to the office to which those temporalities are annexed.

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Words Starting With

DDODON

Words Ending With

RORNOR

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donor

Words Starting With D and Ending With R

Starts With D & Ends With RStarts With DO & Ends With RStarts With D & Ends With OR

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5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With D5 Letter Words Ending With R