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ROTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rote mean? 

ROTE (noun)
  The noun ROTE has 1 sense:

1. memorization by repetitionplay

  Familiarity information: ROTE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ROTE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Memorization by repetition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

rote; rote learning

Hypernyms ("rote" is a kind of...):

committal to memory; memorisation; memorization (learning so as to be able to remember verbatim)


 Context examples 


By all the others it was mentioned with regret; and his merits honoured with due gradation of feeling—from the sincerity of Edmund's too partial regard, to the unconcern of his mother speaking entirely by rote.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He hath by rote the name of every knight of France or of England; and all the tree of his family, with his kinships, coat-armor, marriages, augmentations, abatements, and I know not what beside.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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