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Meaning of rooting interest | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

a desire for, or interest in, the success of a particular person or group, often a sports team

idiomatic

Examples

“1945, {Unknown author}, Town Meeting "The very essence of drama is the creation of a rooting interest. In all your successful pictures, Connie, that rooting interest was the heroine, the character you played."”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

rooting reflex rootkit Rootless rootless cosmopolitan Rootlessness rootlet