Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Feeling or displaying strong affection or attachment; ardent.
  • adjective Having been consecrated; dedicated.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Set apart; given up, especially to some harm or evil; doomed.
  • Ardent; zealous; assiduous; strongly attached or addicted: as, a devoted friend; a devoted student of philosophy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
  • adjective Zealous; characterized by devotion.
  • adjective obsolete cursed; doomed.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of devote.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective zealous in devotion or affection
  • adjective (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use

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Examples

  • Sir Victor had been most devoted, "_most devoted_" said Trix, in italics, "that is, for him.

    A Terrible Secret May Agnes Fleming 1860

  • The word devoted here is the Greek word philadelphia.

    Living on the Edge Chip Ingram 2009

  • And there's not a word devoted to discussing the hatefulness

    Crooks and Liars David Neiwert 2011

  • The album is produced by Tommy Krasker, the co-founder of PS Classics, the label devoted to theatre music and the American popular song.

    Playbill.com : News 2010

  • Additional performers singing on the new album of songs by composer Sam Davis have been announced by PS Classics, the label devoted to theatre music and American popular song.

    Playbill.com : News 2010

  • Additional performers singing on the new album of songs by composer Sam Davis have been announced by PS Classics, the label devoted to theatre music and American popular song.

    Playbill.com : News 2010

  • Classics, the label devoted to American popular song, releases the new solo discs of three Broadway leading ladies - Kate Baldwin, Liz Callaway and Rebecca Luker - on its website Oct. 6.

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  • Classics, the label devoted to American popular song, releases the new solo discs of three Broadway leading ladies - Kate Baldwin, Liz Callaway and Rebecca Luker - on its website Oct. 6.

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  • For more about PS Classics, the label devoted to show music and the legacy of the American popular song, visit psclassics. com.

    Playbill.com : News 2009

  • By contrast, the Miracles Club named after a halfway house for recovering addicts in Portland record for Ecstasy Records, a new label devoted to the quarter-century-old house sound of Chicago.

    How the punks of Portland turned to disco 2011

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  • Think not of corresponding with a wretch who now seems absolutely devoted! How can it be otherwise, if a parent's curses have the weight I always attributed to them...

    Clarissa Harlowe to Anna Howe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

    December 10, 2007