legatee

Meaning of legatee

noun
  1. a person who receives a legacy.
    his sister Alice was his principal legatee

late 17th century: from 15th-century legate ‘bequeath’ (from Latin legare ‘delegate, bequeath’) + -ee.

Information about legatee

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of legatee is: legatees.
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Hyphenation of legatee

lega-tee

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • legatee is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

legatee synonyms

Meaning a person who derives advantage from something, especially a trust, will, or life insurance policy:

beneficiary

Meaning a person who inherits something; an heir:

inheritor

Meaning a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death:

heir

Meaning a woman who is legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death:

heiress

Meaning a person or thing that receives or is awarded something:

recipient

Meaning a person who gets or accepts something that has been sent or given to them:

receiver

Meaning a person to whom money is paid or is to be paid, especially the person to whom a cheque is made payable:

payee

Meaning a person to whom a right or liability is legally transferred:

assignee

Meaning a person to whom something, especially real estate, is left by the terms of a will:

devisee

Meaning a person to whom a grant or conveyance is made:

grantee

Meaning a person who inherits:

heritor

Words that rhyme with legatee

Nocatee, allocatee, communicatee, dedicatee, educatee, hicatee, hiccatee, relocatee, inlapidatee, mandatee, beatee, caveatee, cheatee, defeatee, treatee, colegatee, delegatee, interrogatee, prelegatee, Katee, neckatee, collatee, fellatee, hugmatee, donatee, manatee, coatee, goatee, patee, operatee, imitatee

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