Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who receives.

    the recipient of money or goods

    My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.

    Empfänger, Empfängerin

    получа́тельpolučátelʹ, получа́тельницаpolučátelʹnica, реципие́нтrecipiént

    оде́ржувачodéržuvač, оде́ржувачкаodéržuvačka

    a person who receives something

  2. A person receiving donor organs or tissues.

    Empfänger

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

Examples

30 sentences
  1. Tom wasn't one of the recipients.

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  2. Tom was one of the recipients.

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  3. Write the recipient's name here, please.

    deHier bitte den Namen des Empfängers eintragen!

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  4. Ziri entered the recipient's email address.

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  5. Her request never reached its intended recipient.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
one who receives:
Русский
By meaning 1
one who receives:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one who receives:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō

Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”).

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Forms

plural: recipients
Singularrecipient
Pluralrecipients

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person who receives something:receiver
  • the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause:recipient role

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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