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COGNATE WORD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cognate word mean?
• COGNATE WORD (noun)
The noun COGNATE WORD has 1 sense:
1. a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
Familiarity information: COGNATE WORD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
cognate; cognate word
Hypernyms ("cognate word" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
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