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illegitimates

illegitimates is the plural of illegitimate.

Meaning of illegitimate

Noun

illegitimate (plural illegitimates)

  1. A person born to unmarried parents.
    • Her father and mine was a shameless man and of all his illegitimates I am the most unfortunate and poverty stricken.1966, Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, New York: Norton, Part 2, p. 96

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Questions about illegitimates

What is illegitimates the plural of?
Illegitimates is the plural of illegitimate.

Words near illegitimates in the dictionary

  1. illegitimate theatre
  2. illegitimate theatres
  3. illegitimated
  4. illegitimately
  5. illegitimateness
  6. illegitimates
  7. illegitimating
  8. illegitimation
  9. illegitimations
  10. illegitimatize
  11. illegitimatized

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