PRESENTER (presenter)

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Irregular inflected form: presenter   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does presenter mean? 

• PRESENTER (noun)
  The noun PRESENTER has 3 senses:

1. someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.)

2. an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.)

3. person who makes a gift of property

  Familiarity information: PRESENTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Derivation:

present (hand over formally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

presenter; sponsor

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

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Derivation:

present (cause to come to know personally)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Person who makes a gift of property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bestower; conferrer; donor; giver; presenter

Hypernyms ("presenter" 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 "presenter"):

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:

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