| cognate | (noun) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language | Synonyms: cognate word |
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| (noun) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, sib |
| cognation | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, consanguinity |
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| (noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: enation, matrilineage |
| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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| cognizance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) range or scope of what is perceived | - |
| cognomen | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: family name, last name, surname |
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| (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
| cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| precognition | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: foreknowledge |
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| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| recognition | (noun) designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body | - |
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| (noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid | - |
| (noun) coming to understand something clearly and distinctly | Synonyms: realisation, realization |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: credit |
| (noun) the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country | - |
| (noun) (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape | - |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, acknowledgment |
| recognizance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognisance |
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| toxicognath | (noun) either of a pair of poison fangs in the modified front pair of legs of the centipede | - |
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