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# benefactress

«benefactress» in Mova's school dictionary: **a woman or girl who helps others by giving gifts or kindness** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (benefactresses); the female form of benefactor

### meaning for a pupil

A benefactress is a woman or girl who helps others by giving gifts or kindness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benefactress/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a kind woman who helps a child or a hero, often in return for a good deed

### examples

- The hungry boy thanked his kind benefactress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benefactress/#x1)
- I would never let my benefactress come to harm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benefactress/#x2)
- The good queen was a benefactress to the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benefactress/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «benefactress» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benefactress/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.