say it: kahn-fur-EE
conferee is a noun meaning "a person on whom something is bestowed". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a person on whom something is bestowed
“six honorary were conferred; the conferees were...”
a member of a conference
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for conferee come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.