dedicate

Other forms of dedicate

past tense

dedicated·

present participle

dedicating·

third person

dedicates·

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 dedicate

What does dedicate mean?

dedicate means "give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dedicate?

dedicate has 3 syllables: ded-i-cate. The stress falls on "ded". In IPA it is /ˈdɛdəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for dedicate?

Close synonyms include give, consecrate, commit, devote. 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 dedicate a common word?

dedicate 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 dedicate?

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