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Definition: Addressee |
AddresseeNoun1. One to whom something is addressed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Addressee |
Post & Telecom | The intended recipient of a message. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Addressee |
| English words defined with "addressee": third person. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "addressee": bang path ♦ clerk-operator, COMMAND AND CONTROL SPECIALIST, CONGRESSIONAL-DISTRICT AIDE, cw operator ♦ direct bags, DISTRIBUTING CLERK ♦ electronic mailbox ♦ formal ending, formula of thanks ♦ M bags, Message Transfer Agent ♦ packing-and-shipping clerk, PORTER, BAGGAGE, porter, luggage, press copy, publications-distribution clerk ♦ RADIOTELEGRAPH OPERATOR, radiotelegraphist ♦ self-delivery ♦ TELEPHONE CLERK, TELEGRAPH OFFICE. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For mail order and internet-ordered goods, courier or postal imports of non-EU goods valued at 18 pounds ($29.00) or more attract Customs Duty and Value Added Tax. These charges are generally pre-paid by the delivery company, and collected from the addressee on delivery. (references) | |
Travel | Barbados | Cable and Wireless (C&W) BET Limited has a service whereby that firm can receive facsimile messages at no fee to the addressee, but the senders pay to send faxes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Addressee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Addressee" is used about 158 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 158 | 24,965 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "addressee": addresser-addressee, addresser-message-addressee, we-exclusive-of-addressee, we-inclusive-of-addressee. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
addressee | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "addressee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | geadresseerde. (various references) | |
Albanian | marrës (getter, indorsee, receiver, receiving set, recipient), i adresuari. (various references) | |
Arabic | المخاطب, المرسل اليه (receiver, recipient, remittee). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | адресат, получател (receiver, recipient, taker). (various references) | |
Chinese | "信人. (various references) | |
Czech | adresát. (various references) | |
Danish | modtager (consignee, recipient). (various references) | |
Dutch | geadresseerde (attention party, consignee, receiver, recipient). (various references) | |
Esperanto | adresito, adresato. (various references) | |
Finnish | vastaanottaja (consignee, receiver, recipient), saaja (consignee, receiver, recipient), osoite (address), kirjeensaaja. (various references) | |
French | destinataire. (various references) | |
Frisian | adressearre. (various references) | |
German | Adressat (consignee), Empfänger (consignee, receiver, receptionist, receptor, recipient, recipients, transceiver). (various references) | |
Greek | παραλήπτησ επιστολήσ, παραλήπτης (receiver, recipient), αποδέκτησ (accepter, drawee, receiver), αποδέκτης (acceptor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מען. (various references) | |
Hungarian | címzett (consignee, recipient). (various references) | |
Italian | destinatario (acceptor, consignee, radio receiver, receiver, recipient). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 送付先 , 相手 (companion, company, other party, partner), 名宛人 , 受信人 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なあてに", そうふさき, あいて (companion, company, other party, partner), じゅし"に". (various references) | |
Korean | 수 인. (various references) | |
Manx | enmyssagh (assign, assignee, definable, nominee, terminological). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addresseeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | destinatário (receiver, remittee). (various references) | |
Romanian | adresant (consignee, recipient), destinatar (consignee, receiver, recipient, remittee). (various references) | |
Russian | адресат (destination). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | primalac (accepter, acceptor, allottee, payee, presentee, receiver, recipient, taker). (various references) | |
Spanish | destinatario (consignee, receiver, recipient). (various references) | |
Swedish | adressat. (various references) | |
Turkish | alıcı (accepter, acceptor, buyer, client, consignee, consumer, customer, distributee, pickup, purchaser, receiver, receiving set, recipient, set, sounder, taker, vendee, wireless receiving set, wireless set). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | адресат. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "addressee": addressees. (additional references) | |
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"Addressee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: addreses, adressee, andrassy, Arderseir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "addressee" (pronounced a'dresē") |
| 3 | -e s ē" | lessee. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: address, dressed, resedas, reseeds, seeders. | |
-3 letters: adders, deader, dreads, erased, erases, readds, reeded, reseda, reseed, resees, sadder, sarees, seared, seders, seeded, seeder. | |
-4 letters: adder, aedes, arses, assed, dared, dares, deads, dears, deeds, deers, dread, dreed, drees, dress, eared, eased, eases, erase, erses, rased, rases, readd, reads, redds, reded, redes, reeds, resee, sades, sards. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: addressees. | |
+2 letters: beardedness, desiderates, desperadoes, headdresses, readdressed, readdresses, saddletrees. | |
+3 letters: depravedness. | |
+4 letters: beardednesses, guardednesses. | |
+5 letters: dehydrogenases, depravednesses, dreadfulnesses, forehandedness, freehandedness, hardheadedness, schadenfreudes, strandednesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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