devotee

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌdɛv.əˈtiː/    美 /ˌdɛv.əˈtiː/|/ˌdi.voʊˈti/|/ˌdɛv.oʊˈti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
    — He was a devotee of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  2. A believer in a particular religion or god.
    — devotees of Krishna
  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.

词形变化

devotees plural

词汇关系

衍生词
devoteeism

词源

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