English noun: recipient |
1. | recipient (person) a person who receives something |
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| Synonyms | receiver |
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| Broader (hypernym) | acquirer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | addressee, alienee, annuitant, assignee, beneficiary, borrower, conferee, consignee, dependant, dependent, donee, grantee, grantee, heir, heritor, honoree, host, inheritor, mandatary, mandatory, payee, protege, sendee, transferee, warrantee |
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2. | recipient (communication) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
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| Synonyms | recipient role |
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| Broader (hypernym) | participant role, semantic role |
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