GIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does giver mean? 

• GIVER (noun)
  The noun GIVER has 2 senses:

1. someone who devotes himself completely

2. person who makes a gift of property

  Familiarity information: GIVER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who devotes himself completely

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

there are no greater givers than those who give themselves

Hypernyms ("giver" is a kind of...):

good person (a person who is good to other people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Person who makes a gift of property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bestower; conferrer; donor; giver; presenter

Hypernyms ("giver" is a kind of...):

benefactor; helper (a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "giver"):

abnegator (one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something)

almsgiver (a person who gives alms)

Indian giver (an offensive term for someone who asks you to return a present he has given you)

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

settlor; trustor ((law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee)

contributor; subscriber (someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money)

subsidiser; subsidizer (someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy)

tipper (a person who leaves a tip)

Derivation:

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

give (give as a present; make a gift of)

 Context examples 

Mars’ friends will be there to greet him, namely Saturn, Pluto, and Jupiter, the latter being the giver of gifts and luck.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

At first, while I supposed you satisfied that Colonel Campbell was the giver, I saw it only as paternal kindness, and thought it the most natural thing in the world.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Heart's-ease is my favorite flower, and these will always remind me of the gentle giver.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He gave it to me, and with the necklace I make over to you all the duty of remembering the original giver.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Efforts by doctors and other care givers to give patients the resources they need to manage their own care and make them active participants in the decision making process.

(Patient-Centered Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)

She nodded her head and touched her lips courteously to the wine-glass and to the giver of the gift she knew would never be given.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I love you better now, when I can really be useful to you, than I did in your state of proud independence, when you disdained every part but that of the giver and protector.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, comes to your sign every 12 years—2021 will be your big year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)