welcomee

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

welcome +‎ -ee

Noun[edit]

welcomee (plural welcomees)

  1. The recipient of a welcome.
    • 1907, American Society of Municipal Engineers, Proceedings of the Annual Convention, volume 14, page 218:
      It is difficult to find anything in common except that the welcomers and the welcomees both belong to the masculine sex.
    • 1922, Paradise of the Pacific, volume 35:
      Welcoming people from all over the world, Honolulu has the glad heart behind the "glad hand," so to speak, when the welcomees give cause therefor, whether they come to teach, or to learn; to rest, or to work; to earn, or to spend.