surrogate

Meanings

Noun

• A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
• A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
• A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
• A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
• A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
• Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
• An ersatz good.

Adjective

• Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.

Verb

• To replace or substitute something with something else; to appoint a successor.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• high surrogate
• low surrogate

Origin

• From Latin surrogātus, perfect passive participle of surrogāre; a variant of subrogāre, from sub + rogāre.