Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
substitute:
person or animal that acts as a substitute for another:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
substitute:
person or animal that acts as a substitute for another:

Examples

4 sentences

  1. The woman was the child's surrogate mother.

    Жінка була сурогатною матір'ю дитини. — oromashka

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  2. The new home works as a surrogate home.

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  3. Tom was offered a surrogate home, but he refused it.

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Meaning

7 senses

  1. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).

    A mixture of horseradish and mustard often serves as a surrogate for wasabi.

    Ersatz-, Stellvertreter, Stellvertreterin

    суррога́тsurrogát

  2. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.

    Ersatz, Substitut

    замести́тельzamestítelʹ, замести́тельницаzamestítelʹnica

  3. (UK)A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.

More meanings 4

  1. (US)A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.

  2. (US)A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.

  3. Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.

  4. An ersatz good.

More definitions
  • someone who takes the place of another person
  • a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

Origin

From Latin surrogātus, perfect passive participle of surrogō (“to choose someone as a subs

From Latin surrogātus, perfect passive participle of surrogō (“to choose someone as a substitute”); a variant of subrogō, from sub (“under”) + rogō (“ask”).

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Forms

plural: surrogates
Singularsurrogate
Pluralsurrogates

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
A substitute:ghostA1replacementB2substituteB1fill-inproxystand-in
Close in meaning
  • someone who takes the place of another person:alternatereplacement
  • a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others:deputy

Word family

14 related words
Relatedsurrogatum
Derivedaudience surrogatesurrogate activitysurrogate advertisingsurrogate courtsurrogate fathersurrogate keysurrogate mothersurrogate pairsurrogate parentsurrogate proxysurrogateshipsurrogativesurrogatively

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
surrenderB2surreptitiousC2surreptitiouslyC2surroundB1surroundingB1surveillanceB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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