DEVOTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does devoted mean? 

• DEVOTED (adjective)
  The adjective DEVOTED has 2 senses:

1. zealous in devotion or affection

2. (followed by 'to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use

  Familiarity information: DEVOTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVOTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Zealous in devotion or affection

Context example:

devoted friends

Similar:

dedicated (devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose)

Derivation:

devotedness (feelings of ardent love)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(followed by 'to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use

Context example:

a life devoted to poetry

Similar:

dedicated (devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose)

 Context examples 

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Jo devoted herself to Beth day and night, not a hard task, for Beth was very patient, and bore her pain uncomplainingly as long as she could control herself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This girl had been devoted to him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet that would involve treachery towards the mistress to whom this woman seems devoted.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How many minutes, for instance, had I devoted to studying the arrangement of this very room?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Rucastle survived, but was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of his devoted wife.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also, in writing to his employer, Matt devoted a postscript to White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A nursing specialty devoted to control and elimination of nosocomial infection risk in a clinical setting.

(Infection Control Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

The body of the telegram was devoted to hypothetical topics in order to show him the freedom of range that was to be his.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She would have lived with her god-mother, and we should have been devoted to one another.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)