Giftees

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who receives a gift from someone else
2. An individual who is the recipient of a present or donation
3. Someone designated to receive a token of appreciation or kindness from another party

Etymology: "Giftees" is the plural of "giftee", which is built from "gift" and the suffix "-ee". That suffix, borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin-derived forms, marks the person who receives an action, as in "employee" or "addressee", so a giftee is simply the one on the receiving end of a present. "Gift" itself comes from Old Norse "gift" (a payment or marriage settlement), which reached English as a word meaning something given, and the sense of "gift" as a present followed from that.

Synonyms: recipients, gift receivers, honorees, beneficiaries, donees