English-Italian translations for legitimate

• legittimo
  Ma c'è solo un presidente legittimo: il Presidente Ouattara. There is only one legitimate president: President Ouattara.
  Gli attentati suicidi non svolgono alcun ruolo legittimo in qualsiasi programma. Suicide bombings play no legitimate part in any agenda.
  Si tratta di un obiettivo perfettamente legittimo. This is a perfectly legitimate objective.

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