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rote
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
rote
(noun)
rote
/
ˈ
roʊt/
noun
rote
/
ˈ
roʊt/
noun
Britannica Dictionary definition of ROTE
[
noncount
]
:
the process of learning something by repeating it many times without thinking about it or fully understanding it
The children learned the words to the poem
by rote
.
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— rote
adjective
,
always used before a noun
rote
learning/memorization
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