adopt

[ uh-dopt ]

/ əˈdɒpt /

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verb (used with object)

to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.

to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act.

to take or receive into any kind of new relationship: to adopt a person as a protégé.

to select as a basic or required textbook or series of textbooks in a course.

to vote to accept: The House adopted the report.

to accept or act in accordance with (a plan, principle, etc.).

Verb Phrases

adopt out, to place (a child) for adoption: The institution may keep a child or adopt it out.

Origin of adopt

1490–1500; (< Middle French adopter) < Latin adoptāre, equivalent to ad- ad- + optāre to opt

OTHER WORDS FROM adopt

a·dopt·er, noun non·a·dopt·er, noun pre·a·dopt, verb (used with object) qua·si-a·dopt, verb (used with object)

qua·si-a·dopt·ed, adjective re·a·dopt, verb (used with object) un·a·dopt·ed, adjective well-a·dopt·ed, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH adopt

adapt adept adopt adopted adoptive

Words nearby adopt

adon olam, adonai, adonic, adonijah, adonis, adopt, adoptable, adopted, adoptee, adoption, adoption curve

Example sentences from the Web for adopted

At least 70 percent of the children were adopted from overseas, including Russia, China, Ethiopia and Ukraine.

Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking |Tina Traster |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Many say the adopted children are so manipulative that parents are seen as predators by counselors or social workers.

Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking |Tina Traster |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The adopted children, then 18 months and 2.5 years old, came to the family abused and neglected, Wisner says.

Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking |Tina Traster |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her adopted daughter tried to suffocate a younger biological sibling.

Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking |Tina Traster |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

A version was approved for airline use in 2007—but no airline has adopted it.

Red Tape and Black Boxes: Why We Keep ‘Losing’ Airliners in 2014 |Clive Irving |December 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The arrangement of getting rid of Van would certainly be the most eligible and satisfactory to the public that could be adopted.

Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) |Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
How early this distinction was adopted I have not been able to discover.

Dissertation on Slavery |St. George Tucker.
The very becoming dress which you have adopted secures you from cold.

Count Hannibal |Stanley J. Weyman
This last plan, which best accorded with her disposition, was that adopted by Elizabeth.

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth |Lucy Aikin
The resolution was adopted, with only a small opposing vote.

An American Religious Movement |Winfred Ernest Douglas

British Dictionary definitions for adopted (1 of 2)

adopted

/ (əˈdɒptɪd) /

adjective

having been adopted an adopted child Compare adoptive

British Dictionary definitions for adopted (2 of 2)

adopt

/ (əˈdɒpt) /

verb (tr)

law to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child

to choose and follow (a plan, technique, etc)

to take over (an idea, etc) as if it were one's own

to take on; assume to adopt a title

to accept (a report, etc)

Derived forms of adopt

adoptee, noun adopter, noun adoption, noun

Word Origin for adopt

C16: from Latin adoptāre to choose for oneself, from optāre to choose

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