donor : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: donor	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for donor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
donor n person who makes a gift of property [syn: donor, giver, presenter, bestower, conferrer] (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Donor \Do"nor\, n. [F. donneur, OF. daneor, fr. donner. See {Donee}, and cf. {Donator}.] 1. One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor. 2. (Law) One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee. --Kent. Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees. --Spelman.