Adoption

Noun

 * 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.

Adjectives for Adoption
solemn; vigorous; obstreperous; timely; judicious; grateful; dogmatic; ostensible; timely; prudent; voluntary; ready.

Thesaurus
Americanization; acceptance; acculturation; admission; affiliation; appropriation; arrogation; assimilation; assumption; borrowed plumes; circumcision; citizenship by naturalization; citizenship papers; colonization; conquest; conversion; copying; culture shock; derivation; deriving; embracement; embracing; encroachment; enslavement; espousal; imitation; indent; infringement; invasion; mocking; nationalization; naturalization; naturalized citizenship; new birth; new life; occupation; papers; pasticcio; pastiche; pirating; plagiarism; plagiary; playing God; preemption; preoccupation; prepossession; rebirth; redeemedness; redemption; reformation; regeneration; requisition; salvation; second birth; seizure; simulation; spiritual purification; subjugation; takeover; taking; taking over; trespass; trespassing; usurpation

Etymology
adoption:, adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt.

Translations

 * Arabic: تبني
 * Bulgarian: осиновяване
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 收養, 收养,  領養,  领养
 * Czech: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: אימוץ


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 養子縁組
 * Korean: (入養)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: усыновление, удочерение , адопция
 * Scottish Gaelic: uchd-mhacachd
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Portuguese: adoção
 * Spanish:


 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: усвояване
 * Portuguese: adoção


 * Scottish Gaelic: uchd-mhacachd
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun
adoption



Anagrams

 * adoptoin

Noun

 * 1) adoption

Related terms

 * adopter

Noun

 * 1) adoption

Related terms

 * adoptera
 * adoptiv