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philanthropist (plural philanthropists)

A person who loves humankind in general.
A person or institution who seeks to improve the world, especially by monetary gifts.
- 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 15:
  […] and with a passing vague wonder as to what manner of man the ‘philanthropist’ might be who had more money than he knew what to do with, […]

person who loves mankind

Afrikaans: filantroop (af)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: філантроп m (filantróp), філантропка f (filantrópka)
Bulgarian: филантроп (bg) m (filantrop), човеколюбец m (čovekoljubec)
Catalan: filantrop (ca) m
Czech: lidumil (cs) m
Danish: filantrop (da) c
Dutch: filantroop (nl) m
Finnish: filantrooppi (fi)
French: philanthrope (fr) m or f
Galician: filántropo m, filántropa f
German: Philanthrop (de) m, Philanthropin (de) f, Menschenfreund (de) m, Menschenfreundin (de) f
Greek: φιλάνθρωπος (el) m (filánthropos)
Hungarian: filantróp (hu), emberbarát (hu)
Italian: filantropo (it) m
Macedonian: човекољубец m (čovekoljubec)
Occitan: filantròp (oc) m
Polish: filantrop (pl) m, filantropka f
Portuguese: filantropo (pt) m
Russian: филантро́п (ru) m (filantróp)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: filàntrop (sh) m, filàntropkinja (sh) f, čovjekoljúbac (sh) m
Slovak: ľudomil m
Spanish: filántropo (es) m
Swedish: filantrop (sv) c
Turkish: filantrop (tr)
Ukrainian: чоловіколю́б m (čolovikoljúb), людолю́б m (ljudoljúb)
Volapük: (♂♀) menilöfan, (♂) menihilöfan, (♀) menijilöfan

very generous person