Definition of adopt Adopt

/ʌdɑˈpt/ - [udapt] - a•dopt

We found 22 definitions of adopt from 6 different sources.

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What does adopt mean?

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Verb

adopts, adopting, adopted  

adopt - take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"
  take in
  take ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors"
adopt - choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
  follow, espouse
  select, pick out, choose, take pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"
  adhere, stick follow through or carry out a plan without deviation; "They adhered to their plan"
adopt - take up and practice as one's own
  borrow, take over, take up
  accept, have, take tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
adopt - put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"
  dramatize, dramatise
  indite, pen, compose, write put together out of existing material; "compile a list"
  penning, authorship, writing, composition the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed"
adopt - take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
  espouse, embrace, sweep up
  accept tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
  fasten on, hook on, seize on, latch on, take up take hold of or attach to; "The biochip latches onto the genes"
adopt - take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?"
  assume, take on, take over
  take office assume an office, duty, or title; "When will the new President take office?"
  resume take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations"
adopt - take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"
  assume, acquire, take on, take
  change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
  re-assume take on again, as after a time lapse; "He re-assumed his old behavior"
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Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • adopt (Verb)
    To take voluntarily a child of other parents to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
  • adopt (Verb)
    To obtain a pet from a shelter or the wild.
  • adopt (Verb)
    To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
  • adopt (Verb)
    To select and take or approve.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • adopt (v. t.)
    To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
  • adopt (v. t.)
    To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • adopt
    To take up (an idea) as one's own.
  • adopt
    The act of approving something.
  • adopt
    To take into one's family.
  • adopt
    To choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans.
  • adopt
    To take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities.
  • adopt
    To take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect.
  • adopt
    To put into dramatic form.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • adopt
    ad-opt′, v.t. to choose: to take up or embrace: to take into any relationship: to take as one's own what is another's, as a child, &c.—ns. Adop′tianism, an 8th-century heresy akin to Nestorianism, that Christ, in respect of his divine nature, was doubtless the Son of God; but that, as to his human nature, he was only declared and adopted to be the first-born Son of God; Adop′tion, the act of adopting: the state of being adopted: assumption: the taking into one language of words from another: formal acceptance: choice: (theol.) an act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.—adjs. Adop′tious (Shak.), adopted; Adopt′ive, that adopts or is adopted. [L. adoptāre—ad, to, and, optāre, to choose.]

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  • adopt, verb, present, 1st person singular of adopt (infinitive).
  • adopt, verb (infinitive).

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