Cognate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COGNATE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• someone or something descended from a common ancestor
• a cognate word.
• One who is related to another on the female side.
• One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.
• one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
• a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
• cognate word or language
• a blood relative, especially on the mother's side.
ADJECTIVE:
• related by birth
• (of a word) having the same linguistic derivation as another (e.g. English father, German Vater, Latin pater)
• related; connected
• related to or descended from a common ancestor.
• derived from a common original form
• Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother\'s side.
• Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.
• related in nature
• having the same ancestral language
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that is related to another

Words related to COGNATE

cognately15 cognateness14 cognates11 cognation12 cognations13

Words that contain COGNATE

cognates11 cognately15 cognateness14 cognatenesses16

How to use COGNATE in a sentence

• Or some cognate form of them may have been mastered, yet they themselves may remain unknown.
• Webster was, in his arguments on tariffs and cognate questions, the champion of the North, as Mr.
• The superstition of charms and other cognate matters, are shared alike by all the native inhabitants of Barbary.
• The cognate tribe of the Menomonies, and of the Potawattomies and Ottowas from Lake Michigan, assimilated and mingled with the Chippewas.
• Along with this teaching goes the cognate one, that feeling is the true test of the religious life.
• Two of them have described the phenomena very forcibly in print, but anonymously, and two others have written on cognate experiences.
• This question is as difficult as the cognate question of what are our duties toward ourselves and our duties toward others.
• The only sciences in which the early Chaldaeans can at present be proved to have excelled are the cognate ones of arithmetic and astronomy.
• Of these three races, the Burmese proper appear to have come from the north west, for a chain of tribes speaking cognate languages is said to extend from Burma to Nepal.
• This and cognate dangers have been felt more and more deeply, as the years have rolled on, by students of human society.
• There are many words in which it is evident that the Hindu Gipsy meaning has been shifted from a cognate subject.
• Thus it becomes clear that all living powers are cognate, and that all living forms are fundamentally of one character.
• In this aspect it is very different from the cognate works of Mr.
• French, Italian, and Spanish, cognate tongues, easy to learn, delightful to speak, hold out sweet allurements to English children.
• But the cognate mental member, invention, is most sadly destitute of free and sweeping action.
• The new truth which is promulgated, if it is to be called new, must be at least homogeneous, cognate, implicit, viewed relatively to the old truth.
• The Mandan marriage customs resemble those of the Dakota and other cognate peoples.
• The kinship system of the Hidatsa does not differ materially from that of any of the cognate tribes.
• The cognate trades of bleaching, dyeing and machine-making have been long carried on.
• Professor Schultens was the first to apply himself to the Hebrew cognate languages, especially to the Arabic.
• For in his theory several languages of Central America are derived from the same old Indo-Germanic stock as the English, German, and cognate tongues.
• The question of the authority of the Imperial Government was found to be cognate with the questions of the institution of slavery and of private property.
• But the stories from the mythological and historical traditions which appear scattered in Tabari in proceeding sections have a cognate origin.
• The present name may well appear inexplicable, to those who are unacquainted with the Anglo-Saxon and its cognate dialects.
• For the first time in months she felt a special cognate affection for her son that excluded the others.
• Having analysed the part played by destitution in the production of crime, the cognate question of the extent to which poverty is responsible for it will now be considered.
• And then again let me remind you that this emblem brings to us another cognate and yet distinct hope, inasmuch as the dove was the emblem of purity and clean for sacrifice.

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