surrogate

1. 1.

   providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties

   “foster parent”

   “foster child”

   “foster home”

   “surrogate father”

   Synonymsfoster

   Similaradoptive

Other forms of surrogate

plural

surrogates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about surrogate

What does surrogate mean?

surrogate means "someone who takes the place of another person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surrogate?

surrogate has 3 syllables: sur-ro-gate. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /ˈsɝəɡət/.

What is another word for surrogate?

Close synonyms include alternate, replacement, deputy, foster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surrogate a common word?

surrogate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.