used to describe a person or thing that takes the place of, or is used instead of, somebody/something else 替代的；代用的 She saw him as a sort of surrogate father. 在她心目中，他仿佛是能替代父亲角色的人。 🔊🔊 For these people, television is a surrogate for real life. 对这些人来说，电视是现实生活的替代品。
Oxford Collocations DictionarySurrogate is used with these nouns:- father
- mother
- mum
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin surrogatus, past participle of surrogare ‘elect as a substitute’, from super- ‘over’ + rogare ‘ask’.