addresser
- noun
- /əˈdrɛsər/
- An experienced addresser often knows how to engage the audience during a speech.
- addresser and addressee
Examples
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This analysis, in turn, suggests a criterion by which I can compare Butor's "vous" to other uses of the second person in fiction: "reversibility," that is, the ability of an addresser and an addressee actually to exchange positions, to be in turn speakers and listeners.
Academic text (1994) -
Communication theory has long accustomed us to think of any interchange as consisting of three main components: addresser, message, addressee, where addresser and addressee normally and regularly switch roles.
Academic text (1994) -
The addressee seems to respond to the addresser even though we do not read his actual words.
Academic text (1994) -
It's being spoken by an addresser, but it's aimed at an addressee.
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It knows of senders and receivers, whereas art knows of addressers and addressees.
Academic text (1998) -
Communication theory has long accustomed us to think of any interchange as consisting of three main components: addresser, message, addressee, where addresser and addressee normally and regularly switch roles.
Academic text (1994) -
The addresser wrote a heartfelt letter to express her feelings to the recipient.
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The addresser carefully crafted the message to ensure clarity and understanding.
Synonyms
A person who regularly writes letters to someone
A person, group, or company that sends messages such as letters and parcels
A person who writes letters to send messages to other people
A person who sends letters or packages by post
A person who sends information to someone else
A person who sends and receives long-distance messages along wires
A person who sends and receives messages by coded signals over wires
A person who sends mail or packages
A person who sends and receives messages by telegraph
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Addresser comes from the word address, which means 'to write the name and place for a letter'. So an addresser is the person who writes that information and is often the sender of the message.