Definition of "dedicatee" [ded•i•ca•tee]

• One to whom something, such as a literary work, is dedicated. (noun)

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• "It is when one discovers that the dedicatee was a Manxman, and that the words are Manx for"
• ""As dedicatee of Brahms's Violin Concerto, Joachim is the name that every violinist first encounters when he opens that score," Mr. Hope observed."
• "He justifies his decision to not name his children as his greatest achievement by saying they're not solely his and thereby avoids missing a prime opportunity to snap yet another posterity-photo of himself and his luminous crew, and instead responds that his greatest achievement is "being the dedicatee of books by Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis, and poems by James Fenton and Robert Conquest.""