Other forms: dedications
Dedication is giving your whole heart and time to one pursuit. Great dedication, years of dedication, dedication to the job.
It is admiring and implies sustained effort rather than a burst of enthusiasm. A dedication is also the words at the front of a book naming the person it is for, and the formal opening of a building or a church. Note dedicated, which means both devoted and, of equipment, reserved for one purpose — a dedicated line, a dedicated server; and dedicate, the verb behind all of these.
1noundedicationGiving your whole heart and time to one pursuit.
“It took about thirty years of dedication and nobody noticed.”
synonyms: devotion, commitment
2nounwordsWords at the front of a book naming who it is for.
“The dedication is four words long and says everything.”
dedication is a devoting.
Also accepted in games: devotion, commitment
Latin dedicatio comes from dedicare, to proclaim or consecrate — de- plus dicare, to declare. Dedicating a church and dedicating a book are the same act of declaring what something is for.
Proto-Indo-European
*deyḱ-
Latin
dedicatio
Old French
dedicacion — consecration of a church or chapel
Middle English
dedicacioun
English, today
dedication
Originated 1350–1400 from Middle English dedicacioun, from Old French dedicacion (“consecration of a church or chapel”), from Latin dedicatio, equivalent to dēdicātus+-iōn.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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