recipient

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

recipient
    n 1: a person who receives something [syn: {recipient},
         {receiver}]
    2: the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively
       involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
       [syn: {recipient role}, {recipient}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Recipient \Re*cip"i*ent\ (r[-e]*s[i^]p"[i^]*ent), n. [L.
   recipiens, -entis, receiving, p. pr. of recipere to receive:
   cf. F. r['e]cipient. See {Receive}.]
   A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom,
   or that to which, anything is given or communicated;
   specifically, the receiver of a still.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Recipient \Re*cip"i*ent\, a.
   Receiving; receptive.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

recipient

   <communications> One who receives; receiver.  E.g. "No
   recipient of the {e-mail} message will know about the other
   {addressees} who were listed in the {BCC} header."

   (2000-03-22)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "recipient":
      accepter, acquirer, addressee, admissible, admissive, admissory,
      audience, auditor, beholder, beneficiary, consignee, getter,
      hearer, heir, heiress, holder, hospitable, imbibitory, ingestive,
      intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, legatee,
      listener, looker, obtainer, open, payee, procurer, receivable,
      receiver, receiving, receptible, receptive, spectator, taker,
      trustee, viewer, welcoming

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