surrogate
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˈsɜrəɡət/
:
sustituto
- Fortunately, they seem to have imprinted you as their surrogate mother.
- a surrogate parent
- a surrogate family
- surrogate parenting
And he was sort of he became sort of a surrogate dad to to me and my sister.
- And he was sort of he became sort of a surrogate dad to to me and my sister.
- Parents, surrogate parents, aunts, first teachers.
- Well, it's not the male sex who are surrogate mothers, no.
- It it was a way it's a kind of surrogate religion for lots of people who really weren't prepared to go and bare their souls in church.
Examples
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I wonder if I hang around with you because you're like my surrogate mother figure or something.
Fiction book (2001) -
The group becomes a surrogate family for some students, where experiences are talked about again and again.
Academic text (1990) -
So what do you know about having a surrogate son?
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And then you became the surrogate husband.
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I just want you to be a surrogate mother.
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Look at his surrogate parents.
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In time, my students began to seem like surrogate children and began to influence me further.
Academic text (2011) -
The only sensible option is a surrogate mother.
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Now, in Michael's case, I became the surrogate father.
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In the absence of her parents, Jane's aunt took on the role of a surrogate caregiver, providing love and support.
Synonyms
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4.0
Relating to care given to a child by someone who is not their birth parent
Compounds
How Parental
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1.0
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3.2
23
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42
3.2
347
2.8
- US
79
3.2
234
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Surrogate comes from Latin parts sub- ('in place of') and rogare ('to ask'), giving the idea of a person chosen to take another's role. So a surrogate parent is someone who cares for a child as a substitute for a birth or legal parent.