sender

[sen-der]

noun

1. a person or thing that sends. send.

2. a transmitter of electric pulses, as in telegraphy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sender¹

1150–1200; Middle English; send ¹, -er ¹

Example Sentences

And how do the invitation senders feel when they get that response?

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Six weeks later, she lied to the suspect again and told him the sender of the emails and text message could not be traced.

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And that poor colleague had to call me and tell me that he was just informed that Daniel’s name was either the recipient or the sender on that pizza.

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It washed up across the North Sea where it was found by a volunteer cleaning up a Norwegian island - who then dispatched a postcard to the delighted sender to let her know.

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Crucially, the letter writer seemed to know this - something only the sender could have known.

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