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# benevolent

«benevolent» in Mova's school dictionary: **in trouble** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more benevolent, most benevolent)

### meaning for a pupil

Kind and wanting to help people who are in trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benevolent/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a gentle helper or giver in a tale, someone who does good to those in misfortune

### examples

- The benevolent old farmer shared his bread with the hungry travellers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benevolent/#x1)
- Their job was helping people in trouble; they were gentle and benevolent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benevolent/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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