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cognates

cognates is the plural of cognate.

Meaning of cognate

Noun

cognate (plural cognates)

  1. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
  2. (dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
  3. (dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
  4. A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

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Phrases with cognates

Questions about cognates

What is cognates the plural of?
Cognates is the plural of cognate.

Words near cognates in the dictionary

  1. cognate accusatives
  2. cognate object
  3. cognate objects
  4. cognately
  5. cognateness
  6. cognates
  7. cognateship
  8. cognati
  9. cognatic
  10. cognatical
  11. cognatically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cognates (page history and authors); cognate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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