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legitimates

legitimates is the plural of legitimate.

legitimates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of legitimate.

Meaning of legitimate

Noun

legitimate (plural legitimates)

  1. A person born to a legally married couple.
    • But should a “holy alliance of legitimates” extinguish it, it will be but for a season.1831, Alexander Scott Withers, Chronicles of Border Warfare

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Questions about legitimates

What is legitimates the plural of?
Legitimates is the plural of legitimate.

Words near legitimates in the dictionary

  1. legitimate theaters
  2. legitimate theatre
  3. legitimated
  4. legitimately
  5. legitimateness
  6. legitimates
  7. legitimating
  8. legitimation
  9. legitimations
  10. legitimatised
  11. legitimatises

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