A person who receives an award or honor.
From award + -ee suffix (indicating the recipient of an action), following the pattern of employee, appointee, licensee. This suffix became productive in English for naming recipients.
The suffix '-ee' is relatively new in English (mostly 20th century)—'awardee' is a modern, efficient term that lets us name the person receiving something without saying 'person who received an award.'
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