Meaning of rote in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.

  Example: He could perform by rote any of his roles in Shakespeare.

verb

• To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

• To learn or repeat by rote.

  Example: [Volumnia to Corolianus] "Because that it lies you on to speak/ to th' people, not by your own instruction,/ Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you,/ But with such words that are but roted in/ your tongue,..." Coriolanus III.ii.52-55

adjective

• By repetition or practice.

noun

• The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

noun

• A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

  Example: After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.

• Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

  Example: There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.

• (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

• A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

  Example: That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.

noun

• (now dialectal) A fiddle.

noun

• An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard.

noun

• 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.