American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One to whom something, such as a literary work, is dedicated.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One to whom a thing is dedicated.
- n. Someone to whom something is dedicated
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.
- dedicate + -ee (Wiktionary)
“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.”
“Another composer, Julian Anderson, is the dedicatee.”
“The exception is when the dedicatee is associated with the writer, or when one writer has annotated another's work.”
“The principal dedicatee of her book is the dowager Duchess of Cumberland, “an exceedingly pious lady, a zealous puritan who helped foster the spread of her beliefs” (id. s.v. “Margaret Clifford”).”
“Glass's violin concerto No 2, intended as an imaginative companion piece to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, was given a fine European premiere by its dedicatee, violinist Robert McDuffie, who mesmerised us with his memory in this 40-minute work, as much as his effortless virtuosity.”
“At most nuns 'churches there appears to have been more than one altar, most with more than one dedicatee.”
“The title refers to Lola Montès, the final movie by Max Ophuls, the film's dedicatee, and to Dietrich's Lola in The Blue Angel.”
“A midwife probably the dedicatee of this roughly hewn funerary relief crouches on a low stool before a laboring woman, who is naked and gripping tightly to the armrests of a birthing chair, her upper torso supported by another woman standing behind her.”
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