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say it: DED-uh-kayt
dedicate is a verb meaning "give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause". It carries 4 recorded senses.
open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building
“The Beauty Queen spends her time dedicating parks and nursing homes”
set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church
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 dedicate 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.