legatee
- n someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed
- In that race, virtually all the elders got in line behind Mondale, the party's legatee.
- When Wayne Chatfield died he left his money to his grandnephew, the Assistant Secretary's father, Hobart Chatfield Taylor, on condition that the legatee add Chatfield to his .
- Ted Kennedy is considerably more than a legatee.