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sponsor
English
Etymology
From Latin sponsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”), from sponsus, past participle of sponde?
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sp?n.s?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sp?n.s??/
Noun
sponsor (plural sponsors, feminine sponsoress)
- A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
- Hyponyms: godparent, (obsolete) gossip
- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
- A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.
- One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.
- Synonyms: patron, underwriter
Translations
Verb
sponsor (third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored)
- (transitive) To be a sponsor for.
Derived terms
- sponsorial
- sponsorship
Translations
Further reading
- sponsor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sponsor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Sproson
Danish
Etymology
From English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor c (singular definite sponsoren, plural indefinite sponsorer)
- sponsor
Declension
Further reading
- “sponsor” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
Noun
sponsor m or f (plural sponsors or sponsoren, diminutive sponsortje n)
- sponsor
Synonyms
- financierder
Verb
sponsor
- first-person singular present indicative of sponsoren
- imperative of sponsoren
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??.s??/
Noun
sponsor m (plural sponsors)
- sponsor offering financial support in sports, arts or cultural actions in exchange for notoriety
- Pour mieux trouver le commettant, ou le « sponsor » qui financera les travaux, le chercheur définit un programme, chiffré en temps et en argent. (L'Expansion, févr. 1972, p. 30, col. 2)
- (Middle East business) sponsor cashing on foreign investors
- Vous voulez faire des affaires au Koweit ? Il faut d'abord trouver un sponsor, koweitien, savoir qu'il vous prendra un honnête pourcentage (13 à 15 %) mais refusera d'endosser le moindre risque et disparaîtra au premier accrochage. (Le Nouvel Observateur, 4 févr. 1974, p. 29, col. 2)
Synonyms
- (patron): commanditaire, mécène, parrain
- (Middle East business): caution, garant, répondant
Derived terms
- sponsorisation
- sponsoriser
References
- “sponsor” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading
- “sponsor” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor m (invariable)
- sponsor (commercial)
Latin
Etymology
From sponde? (“to promise”) +? -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?spon.sor/, [?s?põ?s??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?spon.sor/, [?sp?ns?r]
Noun
sp?nsor m (genitive sp?ns?ris); third declension
- a bondsman, surety
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- sponsor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sponsor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sponsor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- sponsor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorer, definite plural sponsorene)
- a sponsor
Related terms
- sponse
References
- “sponsor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorar, definite plural sponsorane)
- a sponsor
Related terms
- sponse
References
- “sponsor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From English sponsor, from Latin sponsor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?n.s?r/
Noun
sponsor m pers (feminine sponsorka)
- sponsor, patron, backer
Declension
Further reading
- sponsor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- sponsor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?ponso?/, [es?põn.so?]
Noun
sponsor m (plural sponsores)
- sponsor
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor c
- a sponsor
Declension
Related terms
- sponsra
- sponsring
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ambassador
English
Alternative forms
- ambassadour (obsolete)
- embassador (archaic)
- embassadour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur, ambassateur, from Old Italian ambassatore, ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (“ambassador”), derivative of ambaissa (“service, mission, errand”), from Medieval Latin ambasiator, from Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (andbahti, “service, function”), from Proto-Germanic *ambahtij? (“service, office”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos ("servant"; also the source of Latin ambactus (“vassal, servant, dependent”)), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?m?b?i-h?e?- (“drive around”), from *h?m?b?i- (“around”) + *h?e?- (“to drive”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?/, /æm?bæs.??d??/
Noun
ambassador (plural ambassadors)
- A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
- An official messenger and representative.
- A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.
- As front hall porter, you are an ambassador for the hotel.
Usage notes
- In English the preferred construction is (Nationality) ambassador to (Country) (the French ambassador to the United States) or ambassador of (Sending Country) to (Receiving Country) (the ambassador of France to the United States).
Derived terms
Related terms
- embassy
Translations
See also
- consul
- high commissioner
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