adopt
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptare; ad + optare (“to choose, desire”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
adopt (third-person singular simple present adopts, present participle adopting, simple past and past participle adopted)
- (transitive, with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
- (transitive, with relationship implied by context) 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, with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
- We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
- (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
- (transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- (transitive) To select and take or approve.
- to adopt the view or policy of another
- These resolutions were adopted.
Translations [edit]
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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