Dictionary entry

Legitimate

Pronunciation: /lɪˈdʒɪtɪmət/

Pronunciation

/lɪˈdʒɪtɪmət/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) တရားဝင်ဖြစ်သော။ သဘာဝ ကျသော။ တရားဝင်။ တရားဝင် လက်ထပ်ထားသည့် မိဘမှ မွေးဖွားသော။

Definition

legitimate / lÇ'dʒÇtÇmǝt / adj ၁။ တရားဝင္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ သဘာဝ က်ေသာ။ a perfectly legitimate argument / concern / expectation ❍ Politicians are legitimate targets for satire. ၂။ တရားဝင္။ I’m not sure that his business is strictly legitimate. ၃။ တရားဝင္ လက္ထပ္ထားသည့္ မိဘမွ ေမြးဖြားေသာ။ Compare ILLEGITIMATE ❏ legitimacy / lÇ'dʒÇtÇmǝsi / n [U] ( fml ) တရားဝင္ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ claim some historical legitimacy ❍ question the legitimacy of sb’s actions. ❏ legitimately adv တရားဝင္။ He can now legitimately claim to be the best in the world. ❏ legitimize, -ise / lÇ'dʒÇtǝmaÇz / v ( fml ) တရားဝင္ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ a court ruling that legitimizes the position taken by the protestors.

Examples

  1. It is perfectly legitimate to ask questions about a politician’s personal life.
  2. [legitimate interest/excuse/expectation] : Did he have a legitimate excuse for being late?
  3. Are the premises being used for legitimate business purposes?
  4. The Scots proclaimed James Stuart as the legitimate heir to the British throne.