Usually means: Charitable giving to improve society.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. philanthropic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. philanthropic: Merriam-Webster
  3. philanthropic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. philanthropic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. philanthropic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. philanthropic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Philanthropic, philanthropic: Wordnik
  8. philanthropic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. philanthropic: Wiktionary
  10. philanthropic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. philanthropic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. philanthropic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Philanthropic, philanthropic: Dictionary.com
  14. philanthropic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Philanthropic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Philanthropic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. philanthropic: Rhymezone
  18. Philanthropic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. philanthropic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. philanthropic: FreeDictionary.org
  21. philanthropic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. philanthropic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. philanthropic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. philanthropic: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind

Similar:
charitable, eleemosynary, beneficent, benevolent, theophilanthropic, philomathic, theophilanthropical, anthropic, philiac, humanitarianizing, more...

Opposite:
misanthropic, antihumanitarian

Phrases:
philanthropic foundations, philanthropic foundation, philanthropic gift, opposite of philanthropic, philanthropic gifts, more...

Adjectives:
more, private, less, local, religious, educational, various, political, exegetic, social, economic

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    sky blue,     gold,     lavender,     turquoise,     coral, more...

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Similar:
charitable, eleemosynary, beneficent, benevolent, theophilanthropic, philomathic, theophilanthropical, anthropic, philiac, humanitarianizing, more...

Opposite:
misanthropic, antihumanitarian

Phrases:
philanthropic foundations, philanthropic foundation, philanthropic gift, opposite of philanthropic, philanthropic gifts, philanthropic donations, more...

Adjectives:
more, private, less, local, religious, educational, various, political, exegetic, social, economic

Colors:
    sky blue,     gold,     lavender,     turquoise,     coral, more...



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