legitimate

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a. 合法的, 正当的, 婚生的 vt. 认为正当, 立为嫡嗣, 使合法

发音

其它 /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/
其它 /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/

词形变化

legitimates 复数 legitimates legitimated legitimates 三单 legitimating legitimating 现在分词 legitimated 过去式 legitimated 过去分词 more legitimate 比较级 most legitimate 最高级

教材释义与例句

动词

使合法；认为正当（等于legitimize）

形容词

合法的；正当的；合理的；正统的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person born to a legally married couple.

v.
  1. 1.

    To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.

    及物
adj. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.

    合法

  2. 2.

    Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.

    legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method

  3. 3.

    Authentic, real, genuine.

    legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions

  4. 4.

    Marital.

    Lawfully begotten, i.e. born to a married couple or later legitimated.

  5. 5.

    Marital.

    Legally married.

    Besides his four legitimate wives, the caliph had dozens of concubines.

  6. 6.

    Relating to hereditary rights.

  7. 7.

    Belonging or relating to the legitimate theater.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 8

legalize legitimize legalise decriminalise decriminalize legitimatise legitimatize legitimise

上位词 9

let change allow permit justify alter modify countenance vindicate

下位词 2

monetise monetize
形容词

同义词 3

logical lawful licit

反义词 1

illegitimate

近义相关 8

true legal established valid rightful lawful left-handed morganatic

参见 5

legal authorized valid authorised authoritative

相关短语

legitimate theater legitimate theatre legitimate theaters legitimate interest legitimate drama legitimate dramas legitimate fertilization legitimate fertilizations legitimate interests [法] 正当利益

词源

From Middle English legitimat, legytymat, from Medieval Latin lēgitimātus, perfect passive participle of Latin lēgitimō (“to make legal”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin lēgitimus (“lawful”), originally "fixed by law, in line with the law," from Latin lēx (“law”). Originally "lawfully begotten". The noun was derived from the adjective within English or earlier by substantivization (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), the verb from the adjective by conversion (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)).

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