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

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. recipient, receiver(noun)

   a person who receives something

2. recipient role, recipient(noun)

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

Wiktionary(3.13 / 8 votes)Rate this definition:

1. recipient(Noun)

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

2. recipient(Noun)

   An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.

3. recipient(Noun)

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

Origin: From stem of recipiens, present participle of recipio

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Recipient(noun)

   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. Recipient(adj)

   receiving; receptive

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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.]

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

How to pronounce recipient?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Bryant McGill:

   Service heals the recipient and the giver.

2. John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.:

   Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

3. Cicero:

   Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

4. Frank Tyger:

   The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

5. Richard Redett:

   We've sorted out how to take that block of tissue from a donor and give it to a recipient.

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