say it: ded-uh-KAY-shuhn
dedication is a noun meaning "complete and wholehearted fidelity". It carries 5 recorded senses.
complete and wholehearted fidelity
a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose
a message that makes a pledge
a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something
music · photography
the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
“his long commitment to public service”
“they felt no loyalty to a losing team”
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 dedication 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.