The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word COGNATE
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More clues leading to the result COGNATE
- Affiliated company confronting dubious agent
- Allied force at once circling German capital
- Joined dance, on retirement, in church
- Correct once tag connected
- Related couple dance round in church
- Related company takes on new agent
- Firm taking a gent inappropriately from the same family
- Connected with Lawrence after endless brandy
- Relative got acne badly
- Parts of beguine, tango, cha-cha on reflection, of the same kind
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What does COGNATE mean?
COGNATE noun- One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
- One who is related to another on the female side.
- One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
- A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
- Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically related on the mother's side.
- Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
- Descended from the same source lexeme of an ancestor language.