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false cognate Tweet Definition of false cognate Like Definition of false cognate on Facebook
noun 
  1. A word that appears to be cognate to – that is, to have a shared linguistic origin with – a given word, but that is in fact unrelated.
  2. A false friend, a word that appears to have the same meaning as a given word, but that does not.
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