Adopt

Verb

 * 1)  To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; especially to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
 * 2)  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.

Adverbs for Adopt
gratefully; dogmatically; advantageously; ostensibly; unanimously; prudently; voluntarily; solemnly; vigorously; obstreperously; judiciously; arbitrarily; ultimately; frankly; deceitfully; apparently; formally; ceremoniously; prudishly; skilfully; tactfully; strategically.

Synonyms for Adopt
assume, embrace, choose, appropriate, accept, espouse, pass, approve.

Antonyms for Adopt
reject, repulse.

Related terms

 * adoptee
 * adoption
 * adoptive
 * adoptive father
 * adoptive mother
 * adopt out

Thesaurus
Americanize; Anglicize; accept; acculturate; acculturize; admit; affect; affiliate; appropriate; approve; arrogate; assimilate; assume; carry; colonize; confer citizenship; conquer; copy; derive from; domesticate; embrace; encroach; enslave; espouse; go in for; go native; hog; imitate; indent; infringe; invade; jump a claim; make free with; make use of; mock; monopolize; naturalize; occupy; overrun; pass; pirate; plagiarize; play God; preempt; preoccupy; prepossess; pretend to; ratify; requisition; seize; simulate; sit on; squat on; steal; subjugate; take; take all of; take in; take it all; take on; take over; take possession of; take up; trespass; usurp

Etymology
Latin adoptare; ad + optare:: compare French adopter. See option.

Translations

 * Arabic: تبنى
 * Bulgarian: осиновявам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 收養, 收养
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:, befogad,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 養子にする
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: усыновлять, усыновить  ,  удочерять ,  удочерить
 * Scottish Gaelic: uchd-mhacaich
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: nhận làm con nuôi
 * Zazaki:


 * Arabic: (tabanna)
 * Bulgarian: усвоявам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 領養, 领养
 * Dutch: goed keuren
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 採用する
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  ; признавать ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: uchd-mhacaich
 * Spanish: