legitimate
Dictionary
noun
- A person born to a legally married couple.
verb
- To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
Synonyms:legitimize
adjective
- In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
- Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
"legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method"
- Authentic, real, genuine.
"legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions"
- Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
- Relating to hereditary rights.
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