sperm donor
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- noun
- /spɜrm ˈdoʊnər/
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donante de semen
- I found a sperm donor.
- an anonymous sperm donor
- egg and sperm donors
- sperm donor search
How much, how much money do sperm donors make?
- How much, how much money do sperm donors make?
- And one of the things that I thought was really interesting that Andrew brought up is women who choose sperm donors.
- So you take the example of sperm donors and who are trying to help families get pregnant or single mothers conceive.
- And he's basically this prolific sperm donor flies around the world doing it.
- If you were fatherless, understand that that was a sperm donor.
Examples
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They sought out a sperm donor who was himself deaf and who had five generations of deafness in his family.
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If that's the case, get a sperm donor.
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You know, I used a sperm donor because I wanted a baby.
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Are we going to use a sperm donor?
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When a person wanted to get pregnant, they would find a sperm donor.
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Are you the sperm donor?
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I did I.V.F. with a sperm donor.
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Choosing a sperm donor is a little bit like setting up an Xbox avatar.
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You're a sperm donor.
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We had trouble getting pregnant, so we had to use a sperm donor.
Synonyms
A man who gives sperm to help someone have a baby
Surface Forms
Morphology
sperm + donor
The meaning is directly compositional: 'sperm' (male reproductive cell) combined with 'donor' (someone who gives or donates) yields 'a person who donates sperm.' This is a productive noun+noun construction found across languages and follows normal English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Sperm donor comes from the words sperm (the male cell that can make a baby) and donor (a person who gives something to help others), so it literally names a man who gives sperm. That's why sperm donor means 'a man who donates sperm so someone else can have a baby'.