adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who receives.

   "the recipient of money or goods"

2. 2
   the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause wordnet
3. 3
   A person receiving donor organs or tissues.
4. 4
   a person who receives something wordnet
5. 5
   The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

Adjective

1. 1
   receiving not-comparable

Synonyms

All synonyms

addresseereceiveraccepteraccepteraccipientacquirer

Antonyms

All antonyms

agentgiversender

Example

More examples

"The largest recipient of Japan's ODA that year was China."

Etymology

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

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