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Surrogate vs Concubine - What's the difference?

surrogate | concubine |

As nouns the difference between surrogate and concubine

is that surrogate is a substitute (usually of a person, position or role) while concubine is a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.

As an adjective surrogate

is of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.

As a verb surrogate

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

surrogate

English

Noun

(en 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 mother.
  • (chiefly, British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
  • : A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
  • A surrogate'' or ''surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database.
  • (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
  • Synonyms

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
  • Verb

    (surrogat)
  • To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
  • Synonyms

    * deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substitute

    See also

    * surrogatum ----

    concubine

    English

    (concubinage)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
  • A slave-girl for sexual service prominent in all ancient cultures.
  • Signifies a relationship where the male is the dominant partner, socially and economically
  • A woman attached to a man solely for reproduction, and who cares for the resulting children without any romantic relationship.
  • a woman residing in a harem and kept, as by a sultan or emperor, for sexual purposes.
  • A woman kept by a man who is high in hierarchial society in addition to his wives, e.g in the imperial harem or within a household.
  • Derived terms

    * concubinage

    See also

    * harem * polygamy * co-wife * seraglio

    References

    * Random House Unabridged Dictionary ----