sender
English meaning: Sender
Definition
Someone who sends.
Example
“The package was addressed to someone we didn't know, so we returned it to the sender.”
Another example: “The parcel was returned to the sender because the address was wrong.”
Usage — When, Where & How
A common noun for the person or system that sends something (a message, parcel, email, signal). Frequent in communications, postal, and computing contexts, often contrasted with 'receiver' or 'recipient'.
Etymology & Origin
English — Origin & History
From the verb 'send' (Old English 'sendan', to cause to go) plus agent suffix '-er', dating to Middle English.
Synonyms
- transmitter
- dispatcher
- originator
Antonyms / Opposites
- receiver
- recipient
- addressee
Related Words
Common Collocations
- the sender's address
- return to sender
- unknown sender
- sender and receiver
- sender id
Word Forms
sender (n); senders (pl.); send (v); sent; sending
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Literary Heritage
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
/To thine own self be true/
“Be honest with yourself — and as naturally as night follows day, you will be unable to be false to others.”
“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?”
/I'm nobody! Who are you?/
“I am nobody — and that quiet anonymity is more honest than the noise of public fame.”
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