( n. )
One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.
( n. )
One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012