foster, surrogate
(adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; “foster parent”; “foster child”; “foster home”; “surrogate father”
deputy, surrogate
(noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
surrogate, alternate, replacement
(noun) someone who takes the place of another person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
surrogate (plural surrogates)
A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
Synonym: Thesaurus:substitute
A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
(chiefly, British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
(US, politics) A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
(US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and interstate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
(computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
(economics) An ersatz good.
(databases) Ellipsis of surrogate key.
surrogate (comparative more surrogate, superlative most surrogate)
Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
surrogate (third-person singular simple present surrogates, present participle surrogating, simple past and past participle surrogated)
(transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
Synonyms: deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substitute
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Source: Wiktionary
Sur"ro*gate, n. Etym: [L. surrogatus, p.p. of surrogare, subrogare, to put in another's place, to substitute; sub under + rogare to ask, ask for a vote, propose a law. See Rogation, and cf. Subrogate.]
1. A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
2. The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. [Eng.]
3. In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
Sur"ro*gate, v. t.
Definition: To put in the place of another; to substitute. [R.] Dr. H. More.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
