dedicatee

American  

[ded-i-kuh-tee] / ˌdɛd ɪ kəˈti /

noun

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

---

Etymology

Origin of dedicatee

First recorded in 1750–60; dedicate + -ee

Example Sentences

“Unfortunately things are still just as bad,” Nuria Schoenberg Nono, the composer’s widow and a daughter of the work’s dedicatee, Arnold Schoenberg, recently said with a weary laugh.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2021

But the fact is that not until his ninth piano concerto, nicknamed “Jeunehomme” after its dedicatee, did Mozart truly stand out as more than a remarkably facile prodigy.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2020

Not mentioned in the remarks honoring the departing players was the dedicatee of the evening’s concert, another long-serving violinist, Hyun-Woo Kim, a member of the orchestra since 1978, who died unexpectectly last week at 66.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2018

The other dedicatee of “The Handmaid’s Tale” was Perry Miller, the scholar of American intellectual history; Atwood studied under him at Harvard, in the early sixties, extending her knowledge of Puritanism well beyond fireside tales.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

The dedication shall be just as simple as that of the "Dante Symphony," containing only the name of the dedicatee, as follows, "To Hector Berlioz."

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End by Bache, Constance