1. legitimate - Noun
2. legitimate - Adjective
3. legitimate - Verb
4. legitimate - Adjective Satellite
Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCapitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. Al Capone
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. William Henry Harrison
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. Carl Jung
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. Nicolas Chamfort
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. William Gibson
What is decided by legitimate authority is not resented by the subjects. Ganda Proverb