Definitions for donor
ˈdoʊ nərdonor

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. donor, giver, presenter, bestower, conferrernoun

   person who makes a gift of property

2. donornoun

   (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. donornoun

   One who donates, typically, money.

2. Etymology: From donoure, donour; from donour, from doneur (See donneur).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Donornoun

   A giver; a bestower; one who gives any thing.

   Etymology: from dono, Latin.

   Litters thick besiege the donor’s gate,
   And begging lords and teeming ladies wait
   The promis’d dole. John Dryden, Juvenal, Sat. i.

   It is a mighty check to beneficent tempers to consider how often good designs are frustrated by an ill execution of them, and perverted to purposes, which, could the donors themselves have foreseen, they would have been very loth to promote. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Donornoun

   one who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor

2. Donornoun

   one who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee

3. Etymology: [F. donneur, OF. daneor, fr. donner. See Donee, and cf. Donator.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Donor

   "Donor" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 29 January 1999.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DONOR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Donor is ranked #102197 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Donor surname appeared 176 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Donor.
   
   53.9% or 95 total occurrences were White.
   35.2% or 62 total occurrences were Asian.
   5.1% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.8% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Benefactor
   • Medicine

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'donor' in Nouns Frequency: #2915

Anagrams for donor »

1. rondo

How to pronounce donor?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say donor in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of donor in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of donor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of donor in a Sentence

1. Esposito Shoes:

   On a national level, Matt Cartwright is the second time in my life I have voted for a Democrat. The first time was Bill Clinton. The second time was Matt Cartwright, i am not a million-dollar donor and Matt Cartwright helped me.

2. Jamie Grifo:

   Most women don't want somebody else's eggs, they want their own, so a woman on a career path or who is consciously going to delay childbearing has the option of putting a batch of eggs in the freezer so she can be her own egg donor if she turns out to need it.

3. Heather Priebe:

   I was experiencing a lot of swelling, my kidneys started to fail, and we had to start searching for a donor.

4. Jagdeep Chhokar:

   If you do not know the donor and you do not know who the money is given to, where is the transparency? Dubious donations are now legitimised.

5. Gerald Brandacher:

   For ethical reasons, we would not want to transplant the germ line from the donor, because that would mean that, were the recipient to father a child, that actually the genetic background of the child would be from the donor and not from the recipient, but in a second step, the patient will receive testicle prostheses.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=donor
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Donor
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=donor
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/donor
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=donor
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html