Dictionary Entry
surrogate
surrogate is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A deputy; a delegate; a substitute. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
- 2noun
The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.
- 3noun
In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
- 4transitive verb
To put in the place of another; to substitute.
- 5noun
a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
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- 6noun
someone who takes the place of another person
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- 7adjective
providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
"foster parent"
"foster child"
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