• (RP) IPA: /ɹəʊt/
• (America) IPA: /ɹoʊt/

rote (uncountable)

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

   The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.

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

• French: apprentissage par cœur
• German: Auswendiglernen
• Portuguese: decoração
• Russian: зау́чивание
• Spanish: de memoria, de memorieta

• German: Routine, Gewohnheit
• Spanish: rutina

rote

1. By repetition or practice.

rote (rotes, present participle roting; past and past participle roted)

1. (obsolete) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
2. (transitive) To learn or repeat by rote.

   [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

rote (uncountable)

1. (rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore. [from c. 1600]

rote (plural rotes)

1. (musical instrument) 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.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662 ↗:

2. Synonym of crowd#English|crowd.