Cognate Synonyms and Antonyms

kŏgnāt
With similar qualities
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. of common descent
  2. analogous
One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blood-relation
  2. blood-relative
  3. sib
A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cognate word

Words Related to Cognate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. like
  2. subfields
  3. non-language

Cognate Sentence Examples

  • Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the Ghegs, or northern, and the Tosks, or southern, Albanians.

  • Several fraternities - old gilds or new companies, with their respective cognate or heterogeneous branches of industry and trade - were fused into one body.

  • But it is a cognate Law.

  • Other authorities suggest that it is going much too far to deny the existence of religion altogether, and instance as proof of the divinity of the supra-normal anthropomorphic beings of the Baiame class, the fact that the Yuin and cognate tribes dance around the image of Daramulun (their equivalent of Baiame) and the medicine men " invocate his name."

  • The fourth region comprised all the Samnites (except the Hirpini), together with the Sabines and the cognate tribes of the Frentani, Marrucini, Marsi, Peligni, Vestini and Aequiculi.

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