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devotée

devotée is the uncommon form of devotee.

Meaning of devotee

Noun

devotee (plural devotees)

  1. An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
    • He was a devotee of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  2. A believer in a particular religion or god.
    • devotees of Krishna
  3. (slang) A person (almost exclusively a man) with a sexual attraction for people with physical disabilities, especially amputees.
    • The amputee-devotee community, consisting of women with amputations and the men sexually attracted to them, has been widely discussed within the disability community.2004, Alison Kafer, “Inseparable: Gender and disability in the amputee-devotee community”, in Gendering Disability, page 108

Forms of devotée

pluraldevotées

Origin of devotée

Pseudo-Gallicism, derived from devotee with an acute accent over the second e based on the false assumption that the word was directly borrowed from *devotée, the actual French word being dévot. Compare repartée and toupée, which have similar etymologies.

Questions about devotée

What is devotée the uncommon form of?
Devotée is the uncommon form of devotee.

Words near devotée in the dictionary

  1. devoto
  2. devotoes
  3. devotor
  4. devotors
  5. devotos
  6. devotée
  7. devotées
  8. devour
  9. devourable
  10. devoured
  11. devourer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: devotée (page history and authors); devotee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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