Donor

A donor in general is a person, organization or government which donates something voluntarily. The term is usually used to represent a form of pure altruism, but is sometimes used when the payment for a service is recognized by all parties as representing less than the value of the donation and that the motivation is altruistic. In business law a donor is someone who is giving the gift (law), and a donee the person receiving the gift.

More broadly, the term is used to refer to any entity that serves as the source of something transferred to a different entity, including - in scientific fields - the source of matter or energy passed from one object to another.

The Online Etymology Dictionary traces the English-language word "donor" back to the mid-15th century, with origins in Anglo-French, Old French, Latin and Proto-Indo-European.[1]

In medical science

Often the word is used as a shorter term for:

In society and international relations

In art
  • Donor portrait, portrait of the person who paid for a painting, typically in a church

In literature

In fairy tales, a donor is a stock character that tests the hero (and sometimes other characters as well) and provides magical assistance to the hero when he succeeds.

gollark: Anyway, you can buy them off us for 1 million melon each.
gollark: And we used spatial IO to remove all but one end portal.
gollark: You can't. Our quarries removed all the ore from the ground for about 1000 blocks, sorry!
gollark: WALL-MOUNTED LASER BEES!!!
gollark: All you need to do is put the mod jar in the server folder, and then restart.

See also
  • The dictionary definition of donor at Wiktionary

References
  1. Harper, Douglas. "donor". Online Etymology Dictionary.
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