What does recipient mean?
Definitions for recipient
rɪˈsɪp i əntre·cip·i·ent
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Princeton's WordNet
recipient, receivernoun
a person who receives something
recipient role, recipientnoun
the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
Wiktionary
recipientnoun
One who receives, such as one who receives money or goods.
recipientnoun
An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
recipientnoun
The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
Etymology: From stem of recipiens, present participle of recipio
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Recipientnoun
Etymology: recipiens, Latin.
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.
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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
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
Recipientadjective
receiving; receptive
Etymology: [L. recipiens, -entis, receiving, p. pr. of recipere to receive: cf. F. rcipient. See Receive.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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 Contribution
recipient
A person, group or organization that receives.
The recipient did enjoy the award ceremony.
Submitted by MaryC on March 14, 2020
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'recipient' in Nouns Frequency: #2786
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Anagrams for recipient »
princeite
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of recipient in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of recipient in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of recipient in a Sentence
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
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.
The words I chose would and did put the recipient in fear for her safety.
It's hard, but it's also a great thing, there's two sides to me. I'm a competitor and a sports person, and I'm also the recipient of two transplants, and I know what that involves. So when you put them together, it does make a little bit of spaghetti in my mind sometimes you know.
It was so fulfilling to meet the recipient and know that the scholarship awarded to her this year will be one of many bearing my mom's name.
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- مستلمArabic
- příjemceCzech
- modtagerDanish
- Empfänger, EmpfängerinGerman
- receptor, receptora, beneficiarioSpanish
- دریافت کنندهPersian
- vastaanottajaFinnish
- personne gréffée, récipiendaire, receveuse, destinataire, receveurFrench
- प्राप्त करने वालाHindi
- átvevő, fogadó, címzett, befogadóHungarian
- penerimaIndonesian
- destinatarioItalian
- 受取人, 受信者Japanese
- 수령인Korean
- примач, примателMacedonian
- ontvangster, ontvangerDutch
- odbiorcaPolish
- receptorPortuguese
- реципиент, получатель, получательницаRussian
- prejemnik, prejemnicaSlovene
- organmottagare, mottagareSwedish
- alıcıTurkish
- وصول کنندہUrdu
- 接受者Chinese
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