Recipient
[rɪ'sɪpɪənt]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(a.) Receiving; receptive.
Editor: Nicolas
Definition
adj. receiving.—n. one who receives that which receives.—ns. Recip′ience Recip′iency a receiving: receptiveness.
Editor: Wendell
Examples
- The only change was, that Mexico became her own executor of the laws and the recipient of the revenues. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The recipient of the letters had meant to destroy them, and it was her duty to carry out his intention. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He turned and gathered her in his arMs. And feeling her soft against him, so perfectly and wondrously soft and recipient, his arms tightened on her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As my eyes met theirs I was, for the second time, the recipient of their zealously guarded applause. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Mr. Guppy's mother returned with Caddy (now making me the recipient of her silent laughter and her nudges), and we took our leave. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He had the power of lightning in his nerves, she seemed like a soft recipient of his magical, hideous white fire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Karl