adoption in English dictionary

  • adoption

    Meanings and definitions of "adoption"

    • 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.
    • Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
    • The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
    • 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.
    • noun
      Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
    • noun
      The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
    • noun
      (computing)
      Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
    • A juridical process where a parent-child relation is created between persons that are not related in the first line.
    • adoption (e.g. motion, bill)
    • The act of approving something.
    • Selection and use of something.
    • adoption (of an heir)
    • act of adopting, or state of being adopted
    • admission to a more intimate relation
    • choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so
    • noun
      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)
    • noun
      the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"
    • noun
      the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"

    Synonyms of "adoption" in English dictionary

    borrowing, appropriation, acceptation are the top synonyms of "adoption" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of adoption

    • lp  liczba pojedyncza adoption; lm  liczba mnoga adoptions
    • adoption ( plural  adoptions)
    • adoption (plural adoptions)
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