dedicatee

American  

[ded-i-kuh-tee] / ˌdɛd ɪ kəˈti /

noun

1. a person to whom something is dedicated.

---

Etymology

Origin of dedicatee

First recorded in 1750–60; dedicate + -ee

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

dedicatee

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

Dvorak made significant changes, but Joachim, the work’s dedicatee, didn’t perform the premiere.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2012

It is perhaps worth adding that Isabel de Rochechouart seems to have been not merely dedicatee but part author of the first tale.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---