adopt
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin adoptare; ad + optare (“‘to choose, desire’”): compare French adopter. See option.
[edit] Pronunciation
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- (WEAE) IPA: /ʌˈdɑpt/
[edit] Verb
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to adopt (third-person singular simple present adopts, present participle adopting, simple past and past participle adopted)
- (transitive) 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.
- A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- (transitive) 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.
[edit] Translations
To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen
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To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally
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