Crossword-Solution: COGNATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cognate | a. | Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side. |
| Cognate | a. | Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language. |
| Cognate | n. | One who is related to another on the female side. |
| Cognate | n. | One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COGNATE | anagram | COAGENT |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
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greedy person
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Sentences with COGNATE (5)
Many of these are old churches; hence, the Swedish idiom for the symbol is `kyrka', cognate to English `church' and Scots-dialect `kirk' but pronounced /shir'k*/ in modern Swedish.
And the habit which is concerned with geometry and the cognate sciences I suppose that you would term understanding and not reason, as being intermediate between opinion and reason.
But by the end of the first quarter of the present century, the great poetical billow, which was not indeed caused by, but received an impulse from, the great political billow, the French Revolution (for they were cognate or co-radical movements), had quite spent itself, and English poetry was at a comparatively low ebb.
When many people perceive the same or any cognate facts, they agree upon a word as symbol; and hence we have such words as _tree_, _star_, _love_, _honour_, or _death_; hence also we have this word _right_, which, like the others, we all understand, most of us understand differently, and none can express succinctly otherwise.
But, before I say more about Ab Gwilym, I must be permitted--I really must--to say a word or two about the language in which he wrote, that same 'Sweet Welsh.' If I remember right, I found the language a difficult one; in mastering it, however, I derived unexpected assistance from what of Irish remained in my head, and I soon found that they were cognate dialects, springing from some old tongue which itself, perhaps, had sprung from one much older.
Quotes with COGNATE (3)
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1961–2024).