Meaning of legitimate in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A person born to a legally married couple.

verb

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

adjective

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

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

  Example: legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method

• Authentic, real, genuine.

  Example: legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions

• Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.

• Relating to hereditary rights.