adoption
NounUS[uh-dop-shuhn]/əˈdɑpʃən/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception“its adoption by society”“the proposal found wide acceptance”Synonyms: acceptanceacceptationespousalType of blessing, approvalKinds embrace, bosom
- 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)Type of proceeding, legal proceeding
- the appropriation (of ideas or words etc.) from another source“the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent”Synonyms: borrowingType of appropriationKinds misappropriation, naturalization, crossover
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Translations
Noun act of adopting, or state of being adopted
- Spanish
- adopción
- French
- adoption
- German
- Adoption
- Italian
- adozione
- Portuguese
- adoção
- Russian
- усыновле́ние usynovlénije
- Arabic
- تَبَنٍّ tabannin
- Chinese
- 收养 shōuyǎng
- Japanese
- 養子縁組 yōshi-engumi
- Dutch
- adoptie
21 more languages
- Polish
- adopcja
- Swedish
- adoption
- Greek
- υιοθέτηση yiothétisi
- Korean
- 입양 ibyang
- Indonesian
- adopsi
- Hungarian
- örökbefogadás
- Portuguese (PT)
- adoção
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 收養 shōuyǎng
- Albanian
- adoptim
- Catalan
- adopció
- Czech
- adopce
- Esperanto
- adopto
- Finnish
- adoptio
- Georgian
- აყვანა aq̇vana
- Hebrew
- אימוץ imúts
- Lithuanian
- adopcija
- Norwegian
- adopsjon
- Romanian
- adopție
- Scottish Gaelic
- uchd-mhacachd
- Serbo-Croatian
- adopcija
- Yiddish
- אַדאָפּטירונג adoptirung
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
A·dop′tion (…), noun
Origin: L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt: cf. F. adoption.
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.
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. Taylor, Jeremy
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54