adoption

See also: Adoption

English

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Etymology

French adoption, Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt.

Noun

adoption (plural adoptions)

1. 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.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace^[1]:

     “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”

   A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.

2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
3. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

Translations

act of adopting, or state of being adopted

• Arabic: تبني m (tabni)
• Bulgarian: осиновяване (osinovjavane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 收養, 收养 (zh) (shōuyǎng), 領養, 领养 (zh) (lǐngyǎng)

• Czech: adopce f, osvojení n
• Esperanto: adopto
• French: adoption (fr) f
• Georgian: შვილება (švileba)
• German: Adoption (de) f
• Hebrew: אימוץ (he) (y'mutz)

• Italian: adozione (it) f
• Japanese: 養子縁組 (ようしえんぐみ, yōshi-engumi)
• Korean: 입양 (ip-yang) (入養)
• Polish: adopcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: adoção (pt) f
• Romanian: adoptare (ro), adopție (ro)
• Russian: усыновление (ru) n (usynovlénije) (of boys and generic), удочерение (ru) n (udočerénije) (of girls only), адопция f (adópcija) (rare)
• Scottish Gaelic: uchd-mhacachd f
• Spanish: adopción (es) f
• Swedish: adoption (sv) c

admission to a more intimate relation

• Portuguese: adoção (pt) f
• Spanish: adopción (es) f

• Swedish: adoption (sv) c

choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so

• Bulgarian: усвояване (bg) (usvojavane)
• Portuguese: adoção (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: uchd-mhacachd f

• Spanish: adopción (es) f
• Swedish: anammande (sv)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Finnish

Noun

adoption

1. Genitive singular form of adoptio.

Anagrams

• adoptoin

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

adoption f (plural adoptions)

1. adoption

Related terms

• adopter

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Swedish

Noun

adoption c

1. adoption

Declension

Declension of adoption

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	adoption	adoptionen	adoptioner	adoptionerna
genitive	adoptions	adoptionens	adoptioners	adoptionernas

Related terms

• adoptera
• adoptiv

References

• adoption in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)