[ˈtʃarɪti], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need
(e.g: the charity provides practical help for homeless people)

- the voluntary giving of help, typically in the form of money, to those in need
(e.g: the care of the poor must not be left to private charity)

- kindness and tolerance in judging others
(e.g: she found it hard to look on her mother with much charity)


Phrases:
- charity begins at home

Origin:
Middle English (earliest as karite, cherite, in the sense ‘Christian love of one's fellows’): from Old French charite, from Latin caritas, from carus ‘dear’