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Meaning of RECIPIENT

Pronunciation:  ree'sipeeunt

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
  2. [n]  a person who gets something
 
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 Synonyms: receiver, recipient role
 
 See Also: acquirer, addressee, annuitant, assignee, beneficiary, borrower, conferee, consignee, dependant, dependent, donee, grantee, heir, heritor, honoree, host, inheritor, mandatary, mandatory, participant role, payee, protege, semantic role, sendee, transferee, warrantee

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Re*cip"i*ent\, n. [L. recipiens, -entis, receiving,
    p. pr. of recipere to receive: cf. F. r['e]cipient. See
    {Receive}.]
    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. \Re*cip"i*ent\, a.
    Receiving; receptive.
    
 
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Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

One who receives; receiver. E.g. "No recipient of the e-mail message will know about the other addressees who were listed in the BCC header."

 
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