dedicatee
Someone to whom something is dedicated.
Noun
- Someone to whom something is dedicated.
- In 1949, having fallen in with some petty criminals, he was arrested for harboring stolen goods and subsequently committed to the New York State Psychiatric Institute, where he met the future dedicatee of "Howl," Carl...
- Once or twice a year, I travelled through France with the dedicatee of this book [Margaret Hambrick, the author's wife] at the speed of a nineteenth-century stagecoach. Cycling not only makes it possible to conduct...
Hypernyms: person
Coordinate Terms: dedicator
Origin
Etymology tree English dedicate English -ee English dedicatee From dedicate + -ee.