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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??dæp??n/

Noun

adaption (countable and uncountable, plural adaptions) (rare)

1. Alternative form of adaptation

Related terms

• adaptional

References

• adaption in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

French adoption, Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??d?p.??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d?p.??n/
• Hyphenation: adop?tion

Noun

adoption (countable and uncountable, plural adoptions)

1. The act of adopting. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

   A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.

3. Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.

4. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance

5. (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.

6. (theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
7. (informal, humorous, chess) Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.

Derived terms

• adoptionism, adoptionist

Translations

References

adoption in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Finnish

Noun

adoption

1. Genitive singular form of adoptio.

Anagrams

• adoptoin

French

Etymology

From Latin adopti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?p.sj??/

Noun

adoption f (plural adoptions)

1. adoption

Related terms

• adopter

Further reading

• “adoption” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

adoption c

1. adoption

Declension

Related terms

• adoptera
• adoptiv

References

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