addressee

English

Etymology

From address +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

addressee (plural addressees)

1. The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.

   Synonym: recipient

2. (linguistics) A person or entity to whom discourse is directed, or the words referring to such an entity.
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 305:

     Person is a grammatical property which is overtly manifested in so-called Personal Pronouns: forms which include the speaker (I/we) are said to be ‘first personʼ Pronouns; forms which include the addressee (you) and not the speaker are said to be ‘second personʼ Pronouns; while forms which exclude both speaker and addressee (he/she/it/they) are ‘third personʼ Pronouns.

Derived terms

• coaddressee

 

Related terms

• address
• addresser

 

Translations

person or organization to which something is addressed or sent

• Arabic: مُسْتَلِم m (mustalim), مُسْتَلِمَة f (mustalima), مُرْسَل إِلَيْهِ m (mursal ʔilayhi)
• Armenian: հասցեատեր (hy) (hascʻeater)
• Belarusian: атрыма́льнік m (atrymálʹnik), атрыма́льніца f (atrymálʹnica), атрыма́ч m (atrymáč), атрыма́чка f (atrymáčka), адрэса́т m (adresát), адрэса́тка f (adresátka), адраса́т m (adrasát), адраса́тка f (adrasátka)
• Bulgarian: получа́тел (bg) m (polučátel), получа́телка f (polučátelka)
• Catalan: destinatari m, destinatària f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 收件人 (zh) (shōujiànrén)

• Czech: příjemce (cs) m, příjemkyně (cs) f, adresát (cs) m, adresátka (cs) f
• Danish: adressat (da) c
• Dutch: geadresseerde (nl), adressaat (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: adresulo, adresito, ricevonto
• Finnish: vastaanottaja (fi)
• French: destinataire (fr) m or f
• German: Adressat (de) m, Adressatin (de) f, Empfänger (de) m, Empfängerin (de) f, Rezipient (de) m, Rezipientin f
• Greek: παραλήπτης (el) m (paralíptis), αποδέκτης (el) m (apodéktis)
• Hindi: पानेवाला m (pānevālā)
• Hungarian: címzett (hu)
• Indonesian: komunikan (id), penerima (id)
• Irish: seolaí m
• Italian: destinatario (it) m, destinataria (it) f
• Japanese: 受取人 (うけとりにん, uketorinin), 受信人 (じゅしんにん, jushinnin)
• Korean: 수신인(受信人) (ko) (susinin), 수취인(受取人) (suchwiin)
• Latvian: adresāts m, adresāte f
• Macedonian: примател m (primatel), примателка f (primatelka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: adressat (no) m

  Nynorsk: adressat m

• Odia: ପ୍ରାପ୍ତେଷୁ (prāpteshu)
• Polish: adresat (pl) m, adresatka (pl) f, odbiorca (pl) m, odbiorczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: destinatário (pt) m, destinatária f, alocutário m
• Romanian: destinatar (ro) m, destinatară (ro) f
• Russian: адреса́т (ru) m (adresát), адреса́тка (ru) f (adresátka), получа́тель (ru) m (polučátelʹ), получа́тельница (ru) f (polučátelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на́сло̄внӣк m, на́сло̄вница f, адрѐса̄т m

  Roman: náslōvnīk (sh) m, náslōvnica (sh) f, adrèsāt (sh) m

• Slovak: príjemca m, príjemkyňa f, adresát m, adresátka f
• Slovene: naslovljenec m, naslovljenka f, naslovnik m, naslovnica f, nagovorjenec m, nagovorjenka f
• Spanish: destinatario (es) m, consignatario m
• Swedish: adressat (sv) c
• Turkish: muhatap (tr)
• Ukrainian: оде́ржувач m (odéržuvač), оде́ржувачка f (odéržuvačka), адреса́т (uk) m (adresát), адреса́тка (uk) f (adresátka)
• Volapük: ladetäb
• Welsh: derbynnydd m or f
• Yiddish: אַדרעסאַט m (adresat)

grammar term for words indicating who or what the speaker is addressing

• Polish: adresat (pl) m
• Russian: обраще́ние (ru) n (obraščénije)