ANDREW CARNEGIE

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• ANDREW CARNEGIE (noun)
  The noun ANDREW CARNEGIE has 1 sense:

1. United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)

  Familiarity information: ANDREW CARNEGIE used as a noun is very rare.

• ANDREW CARNEGIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Andrew Carnegie; Carnegie

Instance hypernyms:

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

 Context examples 

Renunciation, sacrifice, patience, industry, and high endeavor were the principles she thus indirectly preached—such abstractions being objectified in her mind by her father, and Mr. Butler, and by Andrew Carnegie, who, from a poor immigrant boy had arisen to be the book-giver of the world.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)