dedicatee
UK/ˌdɛdɪkəˈtiː/
dedicatee noun: someone to whom something is dedicated.
Noun
dedicatee (plural dedicatees)
- 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 Solomon.2009 January 11, James Campbell, “Howls”, in New York Times
- 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 exhaustive research into local produce, it also creates an enormous appetite for...2007, Graham Robb, “Itinerary”, in The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, W.W. Norton and Company, →ISBN, page 15
Forms of dedicatee
| plural | dedicatees |
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Origin of dedicatee
From dedicate + -ee.
Questions about dedicatee
- What does dedicatee mean?
- Dedicatee means someone to whom something is dedicated.
- What part of speech is dedicatee?
- Dedicatee is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dedicatee?
- Dedicatee is pronounced /ˌdɛdɪkəˈtiː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dedicatee?
- The plural of dedicatee is dedicatees.
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