What does "illegitimate" mean?

Illegitimate: Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.
  2. 3.Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word. Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin.
  3. 4.To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize. The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet.

Sources