Surrogate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that takes the place of another; a substitute.
  • n. A person or animal that functions as a substitute for another, as in a social or family role.
  • n. A surrogate mother.
  • n. Psychology A figure of authority who takes the place of the father or mother in a person's unconscious or emotional life.
  • n. Law A judge in New York and some other states having jurisdiction over the probate of wills and the settlement of estates.
  • adj. Substitute.
  • v. To put in the place of another, especially as a successor; replace.
  • v. To appoint (another) as a replacement for oneself.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
  • n. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
  • n. A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
  • n. : A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
  • n. A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database.
  • n. Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
  • adj. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
  • v. To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
  • n. The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.
  • n. In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
  • n. a surrogate mother.
  • v. To put in the place of another; to substitute.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To put in the place of another; substitute.
  • n. In a general sense, a substitute; a person appointed or deputed to act for another, particularly the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor.
  • n. In the State of New York, a judge having jurisdiction over the probate of wills and the administration of estates.
  • n. Something that is substituted for another thing; something employed to serve the purpose or perform the functions of another.
  • n. Specifically, a substance used in industrial chemistry instead of some other of more or less similar properties and usually of greater value. Thus the product of the action of sulphur on colza-oil is sometimes used as a ‘rubber surrogate’ to mix with genuine vulcanized india-rubber.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who takes the place of another person
  • n. a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
  • adj. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
  • Equivalent
    adoptive   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    reliever    stand-in    fill-in    backup man    substitute   
    Cross Reference
    surrogatum   
    Variant
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deputy    delegate    substitute    replace    foster   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adoptive    your    stay-at-home    dear    foster