Definition of adoption Adoption
/ʌdɑˈpʃʌn/ - [udapshun] - a•dop•tion
We found 14 definitions of adoption from 6 different sources.
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What does adoption mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: adoptions |
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| adoption - the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance" | ||
| acceptance, acceptation, espousal | ||
| approving, approval, blessing a message expressing a favorable opinion; "words of approval seldom passed his lips" | ||
| adoption - a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) | ||
| legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | ||
| jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | ||
| adoption - the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent" | ||
| borrowing | ||
| appropriation a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest" | ||
| naturalisation, naturalization changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology; "the naturalization in English of many Italian words" | ||
| misappropriation wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- adoption (Noun)
The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. - adoption (Noun)
Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. - adoption (Noun)
The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- adoption (n.)
The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. - adoption (n.)
Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. - adoption (n.)
The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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adoption
A juridical process where a parent-child relation is created between persons that are not related in the first line. -
adoption
The act of approving something. -
adoption
Selection and use of something.
Wikipedia 
- Adoption is the legal process of taking a child into a household as a new family member.
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🔤- adoption, noun, singular of adoptions.
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