devote

Other forms of devote

past tense

devoted·

present participle

devoting·

third person

devotes·

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 devote

What does devote mean?

devote means "give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in devote?

devote has 2 syllables: de-vote. The stress falls on "vote". In IPA it is /dɪˈvoʊt/.

What is another word for devote?

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

devote 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 devote?

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