Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
- 2adjective
Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.
- 3noun
One who is related to another on the female side.
- 4noun
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.
- 5noun
a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
- 6noun
one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
Synonyms
- 7adjective
related by blood
- 8adjective
having the same ancestral language
"cognate languages"
- 9adjective
related in nature
"connate qualities"
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