Dictionary

A person born to a legally married couple.

To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.

In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.

Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.

Example: legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method

Authentic, real, genuine.

Example: legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions

Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.