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

For what mattered most about any letter was how one felt about the sender and the news he or she had to share, not how many hundreds of invitations one could brag about receiving.

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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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