Recipient Definition

rĭ-sĭpē-ənt
recipients
noun
recipients
A person or thing that receives.
Webster's New World
One who receives blood, tissue, or an organ from a donor.
American Heritage Medicine

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

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Functioning as a receiver; receptive.
American Heritage Medicine
Receiving, or ready or able to receive.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Recipient

Noun

Singular:
recipient
Plural:
recipients

Origin of Recipient

  • Latin recipiēns recipient- present participle of recipere to receive receive

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin stem of recipiens, present participle of recipere (“to receive")

    From Wiktionary

Recipient Sentence Examples

  • He has also been the recipient of many foreign orders.

  • Unless there be faith in the recipient, an understanding of the meaning of the sacrament and an acceptance of it, it is valueless or harmful.

  • He was the recipient of nearly every academic distinction that can be conferred upon an eminent man of science.

  • When the waves are convergent and the recipient screen is placed so as to contain the centre of convergency - the image of the original radiant point, the calculation assumes a less complicated form.

  • He was the youngest recipient of this honor.

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Words Starting With

RREREC

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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