Definition of surrogate

• n. - A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
• n. - The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.
• n. - In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
• v. t. - To put in the place of another; to substitute.