English-Czech translations for legitimate

• legitimní
  Lobbování je legitimní aktivita. Lobbying is a legitimate activity.
  Myslím, že jde o zcela legitimní požadavek. I think it is a fairly legitimate request.
  Existuje jen jediný legitimní prezident: prezident Ouattara. There is only one legitimate president: President Ouattara.

Definition of legitimate

• In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements
• Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid
• Authentic, real, genuine
• Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
• Relating to hereditary rights
• A person born to a legally married couple
• To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.

Examples

• legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method
• legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions

Related words

• illegitimate
• legitimately
• delegitimate
• nonlegitimate
• legitimate self-defense
• illegitimate child
• monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force