conominee

noun

co·​nom·​i·​nee ˌkō-ˌnä-mə-ˈnē 

variants or co-nominee

plural conominees or co-nominees

: one of two or more people nominated for something (such as an award) : a fellow nominee

… when she won a National Book Award for poetry in 1974, she insisted on sharing the honor with her co-nominees Alice Walker and Audre Lorde.

—Michele Wallace

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above