Usually means: Shared origin, similar linguistic form.
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  1. cognate word: Vocabulary.com
  2. cognate word: Dictionary.com
  3. Cognate word: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. cognate word: Rhymezone
  5. cognate word: FreeDictionary.org
  6. cognate word: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. cognate word: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cognate word: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from WordNet (cognate word)

▸ noun:  a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language


Opposite:
noncognate, unrelated, unrelated word, non-related, non-related word

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Opposite:
noncognate, unrelated, unrelated word, non-related, non-related word




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