The recipient of funds or other benefits.

synonym: donee.

Roget 779: possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person in possession, man in possession etc. 777; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee^†; zemindar^†, ryot^†; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life.    owner; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator^†, master, mistress, lord.    land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord; lord of the manor, lord paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour^†, landed gentry, mesne lord^†; planter.    cestui-que-trust [Fr.], beneficiary, mortgagor.    grantee, feoffee^†, releasee [Law], relessee^†, devisee; legatee, legatary^†.    trustee; holder of the legal estate &c.; mortgagee.    right owner, rightful owner.    [Future possessor] heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress; inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix; reversioner^†, remainderman^†.    ... show more

Roget 785: receiving etc. v.; acquisition etc. 775; reception etc. (introduction) 296; suscipiency^†, acceptance, admission.    recipient, accipient^†; assignee, devisee; legatee, legatary^†; grantee, feoffee^†, donee [Fr.], releasee [Law], relessee^†, lessee; receiver.    sportulary^†, stipendiary; beneficiary; pensioner, pensionary^†; almsman^†.    income etc. (receipt) 810.    ... show more

Roget 996: clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk.    clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant^†, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor.    dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch^†, hierarch^†; ebdomarius [Lat.]; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan^†, dean, subdean^†, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary^†, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular^†; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher.    churchwarden, sidesman^†; clerk, precentor^†, choir; almoner, suisse [Fr.], verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan; acolyth^†, acolothyst^†, acolyte, altar boy; chorister.    [Roman Catholic priesthood] Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal; ancient flamen^†, flamen^†; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director.    cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman^†, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian^†; Gilbertine; Austin Friars^†, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme [Fr.], Carthusian, Benedictine^†, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine^†, Lorettine, pillarist^†, stylite^†.    abbess, prioress, canoness^†; religieuse [Fr.], nun, novice, postulant.    [Under the Jewish dispensation] prophet, priest, high priest, Levite; Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe; scribe.    [Mohammedan etc.] mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum^†, imam, sheik; sufi; kahin^†, kassis^†; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir^†; brahmin^†, guru, kaziaskier^†, poonghie^†, sanyasi^†; druid, bonze^†, santon^†, abdal^†, Lama, talapoin^†, caloyer^†.    ... show more

Dutch: begunstigde, gebeneficieerde
Polish: profitent, beneficjent

The semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause.

synonym: benefactive role.

Having or arising from a benefice.