putative

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[onlybeforenoun] (formal or law) believed to be the person or thing mentioned: the putative father of this child

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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putativeEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus putativeEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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