| anglais > français | |
| legitimate | |
| 1. adj. Légitime. | |
| 2. v. Légitimer. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
| legitimate | |
| 1. adj. In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful. |  |
| 2. adj. Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid. |  |
| legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method |  |
| 3. adj. Authentic, real, genuine. |  |
| legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions |  |
| 4. adj. Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple. |  |
| 5. adj. Relating to hereditary rights. |  |
| 6. n. A person born to a legally married couple. |  |
| 7. v. To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means. |  |