Definitions for recipient
rɪˈsɪp i əntre·cip·i·ent

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.7 / 7 votes

1. recipient, receivernoun

   a person who receives something

2. recipient role, recipientnoun

   the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.1 / 8 votes

1. recipientnoun

   One who receives, such as one who receives money or goods.

2. recipientnoun

   An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.

3. recipientnoun

   The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

4. Etymology: From stem of recipiens, present participle of recipio

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recipientnoun

   Etymology: recipiens, Latin.

   1. The receiver; that to which any thing is communicated.

   Though the images, or whatever else is the cause of sense, may be alike as from the object, yet may the representations be varied according to the nature of the recipient. Joseph Glanvill.

   2. [ Recipient, Fr.]The vessel into which spirits are driven by the still.

   The form of sound words, dissolved by chymical preparation, ceases to be nutritive; and after all the labours of the alembeck, leaves in the recipient a fretting corrosive. D. of Pie.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. recipient

   A recipient is a person or entity who receives something, such as a service, benefit, award, or even a communication or message. The term can be used in various contexts, such as in business, finance, or personal correspondence. The status of a recipient is characterized by their receipt of something from a giver or sender.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 2 votes

1. Recipientnoun

   a receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still

2. Recipientadjective

   receiving; receptive

3. Etymology: [L. recipiens, -entis, receiving, p. pr. of recipere to receive: cf. F. rcipient. See Receive.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recipient

   rē-sip′i-ent, adj. receiving.—n. one who receives, that which receives.—ns. Recip′ience, Recip′iency, a receiving: receptiveness. [L. recipiens, -entis, pr.p. of recipĕre, to receive.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. recipient

   A person, group or organization that receives.

   The recipient did enjoy the award ceremony.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 14, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Acquirer
   • Semantic Role

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'recipient' in Nouns Frequency: #2786

Anagrams for recipient »

1. princeite

How to pronounce recipient?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say recipient in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of recipient in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of recipient in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of recipient in a Sentence

1. Stewart Brand:

   Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine---too cheap to meter. It wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to the recipient. That tension will not go away.

2. Thea Suh:

   Racism against people of Asian descent has been subtle in Germany, but it has always been here, with this recent coronavirus outbreak, it has just gotten worse... we are basically stuck between getting ridiculed and being the recipient of disgust.

3. George Church:

   In parallel with getting rid of the viruses, we have been making the pig organs so that they will not be rejected by the human recipient, the next stage will be combining these and doing clinical trials.

4. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff:

   A Director of National Intelligence has never prevented a properly submitted whistleblower complaint that the IC IG determined to be credible and urgent from being provided to the congressional intelligence committees. Never. This raises serious concerns about whether White House, Department of Justice or other executive branch officials are trying to prevent a legitimate whistleblower complaint from reaching its intended recipient, the Congress, in order to cover up serious misconduct.

5. Gerald Brandacher:

   For ethical reasons, we would not want to transplant the germ line from the donor, because that would mean that, were the recipient to father a child, that actually the genetic background of the child would be from the donor and not from the recipient, but in a second step, the patient will receive testicle prostheses.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=recipient
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Recipient
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=recipient
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recipient
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=recipient