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adoptee
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from French adoptée, feminine past participle of adopter meaning "to adopt"
Noun
adoptee (plural adoptees)
- An adopted son or daughter.
- A person who was adopted as a child.
- An adult Chinese female adoptee has found her biological parents.
- Synonym of adopter
Translations
See also
- foster child
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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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