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donation

noun
/dəʊˈneɪʃən/UK/doʊˈneɪʃən/US

Etymology

From Middle English donacion, donation, from Middle French donation, from Latin dōnātiō (“a present”), from dōnō (“to give”), from dōnum (“a gift”). Recorded in English since the 15th century. Equivalent to donate + -ion.

  1. derived from dōnātiō
  2. derived from donation
  3. inherited from donacion

Definitions

  1. A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.

    • They were collecting donations for the elderly at Christmas.
    • And some donation freely to estate On the bless'd lovers.

  2. The act of giving or bestowing

    The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

    • After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.

The neighborhood

Derived

backdonation, blood donation, donationware, dono, DonoWall, e-donation, egg donation, hemodonation, living donation, microdonation, nondonation, organ donation, postdonation

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at donation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at donation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at donation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA