Usually means: Conforming to law or rules.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word legitimate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. legitimate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. legitimate: Merriam-Webster
  3. legitimate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. legitimate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. legitimate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. legitimate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Legitimate, legitimate: Wordnik
  8. legitimate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. legitimate: Wiktionary
  10. legitimate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. legitimate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. legitimate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. legitimate, the legitimate: Dictionary.com
  14. legitimate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. legitimate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Legitimate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Legitimate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. legitimate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. legitimate: Rhymezone
  20. legitimate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. legitimate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. legitimate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. legitimate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. legitimate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. legitimate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. legitimate: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Legitimate: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. legitimate: Legal dictionary
  9. Legitimate: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. legitimate: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. legitimate, legitimate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Legitimate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See legitimated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
adjective:  Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
adjective:  Authentic, real, genuine.
adjective:  Marital.
adjective:  (of a child) Lawfully begotten, i.e. born to a married couple or later legitimated.
adjective:  (of a sexual partner) Legally married.
adjective:  Relating to hereditary rights.
adjective:  Belonging or relating to the legitimate theater.
noun:  A person born to a legally married couple.
verb:  (transitive) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.

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