Adoption

English

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Etymology

Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt.

Noun

Singular Adoption

Plural {{{1}}}

Adoption ({{{1}}})

1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

   A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.

2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
3. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

Translations

act of adopting, or state of being adopted

Arabic: تبني ar(ar) (tabni) m. Bulgarian: осиновяване bg(bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 收養 zh(zh), 收养 zh(zh) (shōuyǎng), 領養 zh(zh), 领养 zh(zh) (lǐngyǎng) Czech: adopce cs(cs) f., osvojení cs(cs) n. French: adoption fr(fr) f. German: Adoption de(de) f. Hebrew: אימוץ he(he) (y'mutz)

Japanese: 養子縁組 ja(ja) (ようしえんぐみ, yōshi-engumi) Korean: 입양 ko(ko) (ip-yang) (入養 ko(ko)) Portuguese: adoção pt(pt) f. Russian: усыновление ru(ru) (usynovlénije) n. (of boys and generic), удочерение ru(ru) (udočerénije) n. (of girls only), адопция ru(ru) (adópcija) f. (rare) Spanish: adopción es(es) f. Swedish: adoption sv(sv) c.

admission to a more intimate relation

Portuguese: adoção f. Spanish: adopción es(es) f.

Swedish: adoption sv(sv) c.

choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so

Bulgarian: усвояване bg(bg) Portuguese: adoção f.

Spanish: adopción es(es) f. Swedish: anammande sv(sv)

Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Finnish

Noun

adoption

1. Genitive singular form of adoptio.

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

Adoption f. (plural Adoptions)

1. adoption

Related terms

• adopter

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Swedish

Noun

Inflection for Adoption	Singular		Plural
common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Base form
Possessive form

adoption c.

1. adoption

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