awardee
/əˌwɔːˈdiː/ (bre, ipa) · /əˌwɔːrˈdiː/ (ame, ipa) · /ə-¦wȯr-¦dē/ (ame, mw)
awardee — noun
- awardeesingular
- awardeesplural
1. someone chosen by an organization, committee, or official body to receive a priz
someone chosen by an organization, committee, or official body to receive a prize, money, or an honor, usually after a formal evaluation or selection process
Each year the foundation publishes the names of all awardees on its website in early spring.
awardees
Nala thanked her professors after being named an awardee of the full research scholarship.
named an awardee of
The committee selected Hiroshi as an awardee for his work on solar-powered water pumps.
Awardees of the Pulitzer Prize receive a certificate along with a cash prize of fifteen thousand dollars.
At just twenty-two, Kavya became the youngest awardee in the history of the national science programme.
- recipient
broader term — can refer to any kind of gift or benefit, not just formal awards
- winner
less formal, often implies a competition rather than a selection committee
- laureate
more elevated; used for Nobel, Pulitzer, and other major international prizes
- honoree
person being publicly recognized; focus is on the ceremony rather than the selection process
- awarder
the person, organization, or committee that gives the award
用法筆記
More common in institutional or formal writing (reports, news, official announcements) than in everyday conversation. The person or body that gives the award is the awarder.