dedicatee

[ ded-i-kuh-tee ]

noun

1. a person to whom something is dedicated. dedicated.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dedicatee¹

First recorded in 1750–60; dedicate + -ee

Example Sentences

It’s fitting that he’s the dedicatee at the end of director Joe Lynch’s body-possession lark “Suitable Flesh,” since it’s a mostly amusing throwback to Gordon’s brand of blackly comic grisliness, starting with the fact that it’s also an H.P.

From Los Angeles Times

From the more private surroundings of Stondon Massey, where Byrd also developed interests both in property and pursuing legal disputes with tenants, Byrd began to construct distinctly liturgical Catholic music, including the now-popular Masses for Three, Four and Five Voices, and two sets of “Gradualia” covering the whole Catholic calendar, for private performances at Ingatestone Hall, which was owned by Sir John Petre, a recusant and, later, a dedicatee of Byrd.

From New York Times

Auden, flattered Sir Harold Acton — the dedicatee of Evelyn Waugh’s “Decline and Fall” — into reviewing books on the Brideshead generation, solicited pieces from Malcolm Cowley and Morley Callaghan, who had both been expats in Paris during the 1920s, and persuaded Robert Penn Warren to send us a poem.

From Washington Post

The movie ends on a droll semi-cosmic joke that one expects its dedicatee, Johannsson, who died in 2018, might have appreciated.

From New York Times

With Lewis playing trombone, organ and electronics, his austere then emotive work managed to honor its dedicatee by generating new stylistic possibilities within an existing tradition — just as Parker had done.

From New York Times