Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Sponsor   /spˈɑnsər/   Listen
Sponsor

noun
1.
Someone who supports or champions something.  Synonyms: patron, supporter.
2.
An advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.).  Synonym: presenter.
verb
1.
Assume sponsorship of.  Synonyms: patronise, patronize.
2.
Assume responsibility for or leadership of.
3.
Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of.  Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at.



Related searches:
cosponsor
sponsorship


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Sponsor" Quotes from Famous Books



... for nearly four months to his great inconvenience, instead of pushing on to Florence and Rome. It had been some compensation that he had become extremely intimate with that most agreeable and superior person, Lord Belraven, who had consented to become sponsor to ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge
... time been talking of his desire to become a Christian, if he could be efficiently protected against the seditions of his subjects. Louis welcomed with transport the prospect of Mussulman conversions. "Ah!" he cried, "if I could only see myself the gossip and sponsor of ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... less astute a world traveler than Samuel G. Blythe is sponsor for the assertion that the Berliners follow the night-life route because the Kaiser found his capital did not attract the tourist types to the extent he had hoped, and so decreed that his faithful and devoted subjects, leaving their cozy hearths and inglenooks, should go forth ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb
... Godparents because of the spiritual affinity created in Baptism when they undertake a responsibility almost parental in the future training of the baptized. In the Church of Rome Godparents may not intermarry. Anciently only one Sponsor was required. Their action at the font may be likened to that of those who brought the man sick of the palsy to our ...
— The Church Handy Dictionary • Anonymous
... I engage in an enterprise, it must not fail. The eye of the public is upon me, and I have my PRESTIGE to maintain. I have given you a great mark of confidence, for in lending you my influence I become, in some measure at least, your sponsor. But I cannot accept this great responsibility unless I am allowed absolute ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com