Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cognate_word
1 sense of cognate word
Sense 1
cognate, cognate word -- (a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language)
=> word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning")