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addressee
[ ad-re-see, uh-dre-see ]
addressee
/ ˌædrɛˈsiː /
noun
- a person or organization to whom a letter, parcel, etc, is addressed
- a person who is addressed in conversation, a speech, a poem, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of addressee1
Example Sentences
Even when we are not the addressee but a later reader, they make us feel that we are members of a fortunate audience.
Don't deliver this letter to any person other than the addressee, Mr. Postman.
It seems that many letters addressed to their families in Turkey come back again, as the addressee has not been found.
He wrote home on the now famous postcards that inform the addressee that, on such and such a date, the sender was alive and well.
Once posted, a letter becomes the property of the Crown until it reaches the hands of the addressee.
Gallio, the addressee of the eleventh poem, is frequently quoted by the elder Seneca.
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