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adopt
English
Etymology
From Middle French adopter, from Latin adopt?; ad +? opt? (“to choose, desire”), equivalent to ad- +? opt.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??d?pt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??d?pt/
Verb
adopt (third-person singular simple present adopts, present participle adopting, simple past and past participle adopted)
- (transitive) To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.)
- (transitive) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- (transitive) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
- We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
- (transitive) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- (transitive) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- (transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- (transitive) To select and take or approve.
- to adopt the view or policy of another
- These resolutions were adopted.
- 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article XIV, Section 71, p. 156,[2]
- Every society should adopt an order of business adapted to its special wants.
- (transitive, informal, humorous, chess) to win ten consecutive games against an opponent
Usage notes
In the sense of taking a child into one's family, Modern English makes a distinction between fostering (which is implied to be temporary or informal) and adopting (which is permanent and makes the child legally recognized as part of the family). In older usage the two terms were more interchangeable.
Related terms
- adoptee
- adoption
- adoptive
- adoptive father
- adoptive mother
- adopt out
Translations
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a?dopt]
Verb
adopt
- first-person singular present indicative of adopta
- first-person singular present subjunctive of adopta
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adopter
English
Etymology
adopt +? -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??d?p.t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??d?p.t?/
Noun
adopter (plural adopters)
- one who adopts
Translations
Anagrams
- readopt
French
Etymology
From Latin adopt?re.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.d?p.te/
- Homophones: adoptai, adopté, adoptée, adoptées, adoptés, adoptez
Verb
adopter
- to adopt (claim legal ownership of a child)
- to adopt (claim ownership of a child)
- to adopt (claim a mannerism or style of someone else's)
- (politics) to vote
Conjugation
Related terms
- adoption
Further reading
- “adopter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- déporta
Latin
Verb
adopter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adopt?
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
adopter
- imperative of adoptere
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