beneficiary

1. 1.

   having or arising from a benefice

   “a beneficiary baron”

Other forms of beneficiary

plural

beneficiaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beneficiary

What does beneficiary mean?

beneficiary means "the recipient of funds or other benefits". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beneficiary?

beneficiary has 6 syllables: ben-e-fic-i-ar-y. The stress falls on "fic". In IPA it is /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃiˌɛɹi/.

What is another word for beneficiary?

Close synonyms include donee, benefactive role. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beneficiary a common word?

beneficiary is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with beneficiary?

21 words rhyme with beneficiary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.