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Definition of 'legitimate'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) legitimate
according to law; lawful:
the property's legitimate owner.

2.  legitimate
in accordance with established rules, principles, or standards.

3.  legitimate
born of legally married parents:
legitimate children.

4.  legitimate
in accordance with the laws of reasoning; valid; logical:
a legitimate conclusion.

5.  legitimate
resting on or ruling by the principle of hereditary right:
a legitimate sovereign.

6.  legitimate
justified; genuine:
a legitimate complaint.

7.  legitimate
of the normal or regular type or kind.

8.  legitimate
of or pertaining to professionally produced stage plays, as distinguished from burlesque, vaudeville, etc.

9. (v.t.) legitimate
to make lawful or legal; pronounce as lawful:
Parliament legitimated her accession to the throne.

10.  legitimate
to confer legitimacy upon (a bastard).

11.  legitimate
to show or declare to be legitimate or proper.

12.  legitimate
to justify; sanction or authorize.

13. (n.) legitimate
a person who is established as being legitimate.

Etymology: (1485–95; < ML lēgitimātus, ptp. of lēgitimāre to make lawful, der. of L lēgitimus lawful, legal <lēg-, s. of lēx law)

Definition of 'legitimate'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) legitimate
of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful

2. (adj) legitimate, logical
based on known statements or events or conditions
"rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"

3. (adj) legitimate
in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles
"legitimate advertising practices"

4. (verb) lawful, legitimate, licit
authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law
"a legitimate government"

5. (verb) legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise
make legal
"Marijuana should be legalized"

6. (verb) legitimate
show or affirm to be just and legitimate

7. (verb) legitimate
make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone)
"They legitimized their natural child"

Definition of 'legitimate'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) legitimate
approved or legally allowed
He now runs a legitimate business.

2. legitimate
reasonable and valid
a legitimate excuse for being late; The girl's questions are completely legitimate.; a legitimately elected leader

Definition of 'legitimate'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) legitimate
accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir

2. (adj) legitimate
lawfully begotten; born in wedlock

3. (adj) legitimate
authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions

4. (adj) legitimate
conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors

5. (adj) legitimate
following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference

6. (verb) legitimate
to make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child

Translation of 'legitimate'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: lawful Is this procedure perfectly legitimate?
Afrikaans: wettig	Arabic: شَرْعي	Bulgarian: законен
Brazilian: legítimo	Czech: zákonný	German: gesetzlich
Danish: lovlig; legitim	Greek: νόμιμος, θεμιτός	Spanish: legítimo
Estonian: seaduslik	Farsi: مشروع	Finnish: laillinen
French: légitime	Hebrew: חוּקִי	Hindi: वैध
Croatian: zakonit	Hungarian: törvényes	Indonesian: sah
Icelandic: lögmætur	Italian: legittimo	Japanese: 合法の
Korean: 합법의	Lithuanian: teisėtas, paremtas įstaty	Latvian: likumīgs
Malay: sah	Dutch: wettig	Norwegian: lovlig, rettmessig, legit
Polish: prawowity, prawnie uzasad	Persian: مشروع	Pashto: مشروع،د قانون په رڼا كښى
Portuguese: legítimo	Romanian: legal	Russian: законный
Slovak: zákonný	Slovenian: zakonit	Serbian: zakonit
Swedish: legitim, laglig	Thai: ตามหลักการหรือกฎเกณฑ์ที่ต	Turkish: yasal, kanunî
Taiwanese: 合法的	Ukrainian: законний; легітимний	Urdu: جائز
Vietnamese: hợp pháp	Chinese: 合法的
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