Definitions for legatee

legatee leg·a·tee

Spelling: [leg-uh-tee]
IPA: /ˌlɛg əˈti/

Legatee is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in legatee (aeeeglt).

Definitions for legatee

noun

  1. a person to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

Origin of legatee

1670-80; Latin lēgāt(us) (see legate) + -ee

Examples for legatee

Just so much as the testator parts with the legatee obtains.

There is "many a slip betwixt the cup" of the legator and "the lip" of the legatee.

Flo Why how can Mark Trenchard's property be yours, unless you marry the legatee.

It flashed upon him presently that a legatee could not benefit by a will which he had witnessed.

Varun sees himself as a legatee of his father, Sanjay Gandhi, not his great-grandfather Nehru.

He may himself be a legatee and endeavor to transfer to himself.

The legacy and the legatee have proved equally unsubstantial.

What was her position as legatee to her situation as a woman?

In case of death, Gobseck would make you legatee of my property.

Then, too, there was a possibility that Herbert would turn out a legatee.

Word Value for legatee
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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