devotee

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˌdɛv.əˈtiː/
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/ˌdɛv.əˈtiː/ · /ɖɪˈʋo.ʈi/

Definition of devotee

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
    “He was a devotee of Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
    “a devotee of classical music”
    “These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.”
    “*The Expanse'*s patois has become, like Klingon and Dothraki, the show's great unifier—the slang all devotees speak.”
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noun

  1. An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
    “He was a devotee of Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
    “a devotee of classical music”
    “These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.”
    “*The Expanse'*s patois has become, like Klingon and Dothraki, the show's great unifier—the slang all devotees speak.”
  2. A believer in a particular religion or god.
    “devotees of Krishna”
    “devotees thronged the temple”
    “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.”
  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.”
    “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.”
    “One of the paradoxical issues facing people with disabilities are "devotees": temporarily able-bodied people who are attracted to them because of their disabilities.[…]Although some women with disabilities experience a positive effect, devotee forums and websites simultaneously sexually objectify women with disabilities.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From devote + -ee. The narrowed meaning in sense 3 arises from the sound similarity with amputee.

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