Definitions for surrogate

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surrogate sur·ro·gate

Spelling: [noun, adjective sur-uh-geyt, -git, suhr-;

IPA: /noun, adjective ˈsɜr əˌgeɪt, -gɪt, ˈsʌr-; verb ˈsɜr əˌgeɪt, ˈsʌr-/

Surrogate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 563 anagrams from letters in surrogate (aegorrstu).

Definitions for surrogate

noun

1. a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
2. (in some states) a judicial officer having jurisdiction over the probate of wills, the administration of estates, etc.
3. the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, especially of a bishop or a bishop's chancellor.
4. a substitute.
5. a surrogate mother.
6. Politics. someone who acts on behalf of a politician or political candidate by making public appearances, issuing statements, etc., when that person is engaged elsewhere or when that person’s image would be bolstered by certain affiliations:

adjective

1. regarded or acting as a surrogate:
2. involving or indicating the use of a surrogate mother to conceive or carry an embryo:

verb (used with object)

1. to put into the place of another as a successor, substitute, or deputy; substitute for another.
2. to subrogate.

Origin of surrogate

1525-35; Latin surrogātus, assimilated variant of subrogātus; see subrogate

Examples for surrogate

The sow is the surrogate of the beautiful princess of the fairy tale.

That brother, Francisco, had served as his surrogate father, and was now in jail in Big Spring, Texas.

The clerkship of the surrogate Court was soon to be filled by election.

Data eclipsed God in 1973, and its continuing ascendance suggests a culture that treats it as a surrogate divinity.

Some of his decisions as surrogate are regarded as precedents to this day.

They were like surrogate parents and a huge influence on my life and my work.

Mad Men is very big on surrogate parents on the show, and Roger always viewed Bert as a surrogate father figure.

The mandrake was clearly a surrogate of the shell or vice versa.

The political trip to the state will be his sixth this cycle, an unusual pace for any surrogate in a single state.

No surrogate could penetrate it and no weapon would operate within it.