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rotes

rotes is the plural of rote.

Meaning of rote

Noun (1)

rote (uncountable)

  1. Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
    • The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.
    Synonyms:
    roteness

Noun (2)

rote (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

Noun (3)

rote (plural rotes)

  1. A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
    • extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....
  2. Synonym of crowd.
    Synonyms:
    crowd

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Questions about rotes

What is rotes the plural of?
Rotes is the plural of rote.

Words near rotes in the dictionary

  1. rotenolone
  2. rotenone
  3. rotenones
  4. Rotert
  5. Roterts
  6. rotes
  7. rotework
  8. ROTFC
  9. ROTFL
  10. ROTFLMAO
  11. ROTFLMFAO

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rotes (page history and authors); rote (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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