LEGATEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legatee mean? 

• LEGATEE (noun)
  The noun LEGATEE has 1 sense:

1. someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed

  Familiarity information: LEGATEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGATEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("legatee" is a kind of...):

beneficiary; donee (the recipient of funds or other benefits)

 Context examples 

All the rest he died possessed of, he bequeathed to Peggotty; whom he left residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will and testament.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As we re-entered the carriage, and I sat back feverish and fagged, I remembered what, in the hurry of events, dark and bright, I had wholly forgotten—the letter of my uncle, John Eyre, to Mrs. Reed: his intention to adopt me and make me his legatee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)