addressee

Noun

Meaning

One to whom anything is addressed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

colonist assignee habitant householder lodger burgher audience receiver owner citizen resident heir recipient holder incumbent
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Antonyms

courier alien patron donor farewell correspondent
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Hypernyms

receiver recipient

Related terms

address addresser

Examples

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee. Carl Jung

The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text. Edward Hirsch

Callahan argues that, beyond verse 16, "nothing in the text conclusively indicates that Onesimus was ever the chattel of the letter's chief addressee. Source: Internet

Honorifics are another common form of deference index and demonstrate the speaker's respect or esteem for the addressee via special forms of address and/or self-humbling first-person pronouns. Source: Internet

Floyd 1999, p. 89. Once again, the burden of direct evidence is being placed on the addressee, not on the speaker. Source: Internet

Floyd describes yes/no questions as being "characterized as instructions to the addressee to assert one of the propositions of a disjunction." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

addressed oneself to addressed separately addressedness addresser addressful addressible