The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Recipient \Re*cip"i*ent\, a.
   Receiving; receptive.
   [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Recipient \Re*cip"i*ent\ (r[-e]*s[i^]p"[i^]*ent), n. [L.
   recipiens, -entis, receiving, p. pr. of recipere to receive:
   cf. F. r['e]cipient. See Receive.]
   A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom,
   or that to which, anything is given or communicated;
   specifically, the receiver of a still.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

recipient
    n 1: a person who receives something [syn: recipient,
         receiver]
    2: the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively
       involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
       [syn: recipient role, recipient]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "recipient":
   accepter, acquirer, addressee, admissible, admissive, admissory,
   audience, auditor, beholder, beneficiary, consignee, getter,
   hearer, heir, heiress, holder, hospitable, imbibitory, ingestive,
   intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, legatee,
   listener, looker, obtainer, open, payee, procurer, receivable,
   receiver, receiving, receptible, receptive, spectator, taker,
   trustee, viewer, welcoming



The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

recipient

    One who receives; receiver.  E.g. "No
   recipient of the e-mail message will know about the other
   addressees who were listed in the BCC header."

   (2000-03-22)