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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
votary is a noun meaning "one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service". It carries 3 recorded senses.
one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service
“monasteries of votaries”
a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult
“a votary of Aphrodite”
a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity
“the cultured votary of science”
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 votary come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.