Learned borrowing from Latin spōnsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈspɒn.səː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈspɑn.sɚ/, /ˈspɒn.sɚ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈspɔn.səː/, /ˈspɒ̝n.səː/
• Hyphenation: spon‧sor

sponsor (plural sponsors)

1. A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.

   Hyponyms: godparent, (obsolete) gossip

   He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.

   They were my sponsors for immigration.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

   1. A senior member of a twelve step or similar program chosen to guide an initiate and form a partnership with them.

      My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.

      • 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 173:

        Members also choose a sponsor, with whom they are supposed to remain in regular, even daily, contact—and that, too, is a powerful boost for monitoring.

2. A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.

   Synonyms: patron, underwriter

   And now a word from our sponsor.

• → Czech: sponzor
• → Danish: sponsor
• → Dutch: sponsor
• → French: sponsor
• → German: Sponsor
• → Indonesian: sponsor
• → Polish: sponsor
• → Scottish Gaelic: sponsair

sponsor (third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored)

1. (transitive) To be a sponsor for.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

• patron

• “sponsor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sponsor”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Sproson

From English sponsor.

sponsor c (singular definite sponsoren, plural indefinite sponsorer)

1. sponsor

• “sponsor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English sponsor.

• Audio:

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sponsor m or f (plural sponsors or sponsoren, diminutive sponsortje n)

1. sponsor

   Synonym: financierder

• → Sranan Tongo: sponser
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sponsor

sponsor

1. inflection of sponsoren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from English sponsor, from Latin spōnsor.

• IPA^(key): /spɔ̃.sɔʁ/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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sponsor m (plural sponsors)

1. sponsor offering financial support in sports, arts or cultural actions in exchange for notoriety

   Pour mieux trouver le commettant, ou le « sponsor » qui financera les travaux, le chercheur définit un programme, chiffré en temps et en argent. (L'Expansion, févr. 1972, p. 30, col. 2)

2. (Middle East business) sponsor cashing on foreign investors

   Vous voulez faire des affaires au Koweit ? Il faut d'abord trouver un sponsor, koweitien, savoir qu'il vous prendra un honnête pourcentage (13 à 15 %) mais refusera d'endosser le moindre risque et disparaîtra au premier accrochage. (Le Nouvel Observateur, 4 févr. 1974, p. 29, col. 2)

• (patron): commanditaire, mécène, parrain
• (Middle East business): caution, garant, répondant

• sponsorisation
• sponsoriser

• “sponsor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• “sponsor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from English sponsor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔn.sɔr/
• Rhymes: -sɔr
• Hyphenation: spon‧sor

sponsor (plural sponsor-sponsor)

1. sponsor:
   1. a person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect
   2. one that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time
2. sponsorship:
   1. the state or practice of being a sponsor
   2. the aid or support provided by a sponsor; backing or patronage

• (sponsorship (aid, support)): tajaan (Standard Malay)
• (sponsorship (process)): penajaan (Standard Malay)

• “sponsor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from English sponsor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔn.sor/
• Rhymes: -ɔnsor
• Hyphenation: spòn‧sor

sponsor m (invariable)

1. sponsor (commercial)

From spondeō (“to promise”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈspõː.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈspɔn.sor]

spōnsor m (genitive spōnsōris); third declension

1. a bondsman, surety

Third-declension noun.

• cōnspōnsor

• → English: sponsor
  • → Czech: sponzor
  • → Danish: sponsor
  • → Dutch: sponsor
  • → French: sponsor
  • → German: Sponsor
  • → Indonesian: sponsor
  • → Polish: sponsor
  • → Scottish Gaelic: sponsair
• → Translingual: Sponsor (learned)

• “sponsor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sponsor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sponsor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be security for some one: sponsionem facere, sponsorem esse pro aliquo
    
• “sponsor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from English sponsor.

sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorer, definite plural sponsorene)

1. a sponsor

• sponse

• “sponsor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English sponsor.

sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorar, definite plural sponsorane)

1. a sponsor

• sponse

• “sponsor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English sponsor, from Latin spōnsor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔn.sɔr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔnsɔr
• Syllabification: spon‧sor

sponsor m pers (female equivalent sponsorka, related adjective sponsorski)

1. sponsor, patron, backer (person or organisation with responsibility (especially with a religious or financial aspect))

   Synonym: fundator

2. (colloquial) sponsor (one that pays all or part of the cost of an event)

• sponsor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sponsor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English sponsor.

• Audio:

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sponsor m (plural sponsori)

1. sponsor

• espónsor

Unadapted borrowing from English sponsor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsponsoɾ/ [ˈspõn.soɾ]
  • Rhymes: -onsoɾ
  • Syllabification: spon‧sor
• IPA^(key): /esˈponsoɾ/ [esˈpõn.soɾ]
  • Rhymes: -onsoɾ

sponsor m (plural sponsors or sponsores)

1. sponsor

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “sponsor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from English sponsor.

sponsor c

1. a sponsor

• sponsra
• sponsring

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