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devotee

.devә'ti:8 senses · 637 ms
Level C1GRE
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noun/ˌdɛv.əˈtiː//ˌdi.voʊˈti//ˌdɛv.oʊˈti/
  1. 1

    An ardent enthusiast or admirer.

    • He was a devotee of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
    • a devotee of classical music
  2. 2

    A believer in a particular religion or god.

    • devotees of Krishna
    • devotees thronged the temple
  3. 3

    A person (almost exclusively a man) with a sexual attraction for people with physical disabilities, especially amputees.slang

    • 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.

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