cognate

cognate is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
2. adjective. Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.
3. noun. One who is related to another on the female side.
4. noun. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.
5. noun. a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
6. noun. one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another

   Synonyms: sib

7. adjective. related by blood

   Synonyms: akin, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin

8. adjective. having the same ancestral language

   "cognate languages"

9. adjective. related in nature

   "connate qualities"

   Synonyms: connate

Synonyms

sib, akin, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin, connate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cognate:

coagent

Common word forms

cognates, cognately, cognateness

Words from these letters

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