devotee
Syllables: de·vo·teeUK/ˌdɛv.əˈtiː/US/ˌdi.voʊˈti/
devotee noun: an ardent enthusiast or admirer.
Noun
devotee (plural devotees)
- An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
- He was a devotee of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- a devotee of classical music
- Synonyms:
- addict, buff, aficionado, amateur, enthusiast, fancier, fan, fiend, freak, junkie
- A believer in a particular religion or god.
- devotees of Krishna
- devotees thronged the temple
- 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
- He becomes involved in a story about a community of wannabes and devotees, those who desire to be sexually intimate with disabled bodies, and meets Fiona, an art conservator and wannabe, or disabled pretender.2019, Ann Millett-Gallant, “Basilisk and the Representation of Physically Disabled Women in Film”, in Contemporary Art and Disability Studies
devotee meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
devotee in Hindi
- admirer
- प्रशंसक praśansak
- believer
- भक्त bhakt, उपासक upāsak
devotee in Tamil
- believer
- பக்தன் paktaṉ, பக்தர் paktar
devotee in Urdu
- admirer
- پرستار parastār
- believer
- عقیدت مند 'aqīdat-mand, عابد 'ābid
devotee in Bengali
- believer
- আবেদ abed
More languagesFewer languages
- devotee in Telugu
- భక్త bhakta
- devotee in Malayalam
- ഭക്തൻ, ഉപാസകൻ, ഉപാസി, ഈശ്വരഭക്തൻ
- devotee in Kannada
- ಭಕ್ತ bhakta
- devotee in Punjabi
- ਗੁਸਾਈਂ gusāī̃, ਜਨ jan
- devotee in Sanskrit
- दास dāsá
- devotee in Assamese
- ভকত bhokot
Examples of devotee in a sentence
- *The Expanse'*s patois has become, like Klingon and Dothraki, the show's great unifier—the slang all devotees speak.2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2022:
- It has been said that a Japanese is a Shintōist in life and a Buddhist at death; and it is also true that he may be during life, at one and the same time, a devotee of both.1913, Ernest Wilson Clement, A Handbook of Modern Japan, page 253:
Synonyms of devotee
Forms of devotee
| plural | devotees |
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Origin of devotee
From devote + -ee. The narrowed meaning in sense 3 arises from the sound similarity with amputee.
Words formed from devotee
Questions about devotee
- What does devotee mean?
- Devotee means an ardent enthusiast or admirer.
- What is devotee in Hindi?
- Devotee in Hindi is प्रशंसक (praśansak), भक्त (bhakt), उपासक (upāsak). See Devotee meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use devotee in a sentence?
- *The Expanse'*s patois has become, like Klingon and Dothraki, the show's great unifier—the slang all devotees speak.
- What part of speech is devotee?
- Devotee is a noun.
- How do you pronounce devotee?
- Devotee is pronounced /ˌdɛv.əˈtiː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of devotee?
- The plural of devotee is devotees.
Words near devotee in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: devotee (page history and authors); devotee (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಭಕ್ತ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਗੁਸਾਈਂ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); दास (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); ভকত (Assamese) (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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