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adoption
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)
- The act of adopting. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 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.
- Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
- The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance
- (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
- (theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
- (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
- Genitive singular form of adoptio.
Anagrams
- adoptoin
French
Etymology
From Latin adopti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.d?p.sj??/
Noun
adoption f (plural adoptions)
- 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
- adoption
Declension
Related terms
- adoptera
- adoptiv
References
- adoption in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
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adopting
English
Verb
adopting
- present participle of adopt
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