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- Dictionaryadopt/əˈdɒpt/
verb
- 1. legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own: "there are many people eager to adopt a baby"
- 2. choose to take up, follow, or use: "this approach has been adopted by many big banks" Similar Opposite
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to legally take another person's child into your own family and take care of him or her as your own child: They've adopted a baby girl. She had the child adopted (= she gave her baby to someone else to take care of). They have no children of their own, but they're hoping to adopt. Compare. foster verb (TAKE CARE OF) [ T ]
The meaning of ADOPT is to take (someone or something) by choice into a relationship. How to use adopt in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Adopt.
Most generally, adopt means to choose or take as one’s own. It can also mean to accept something or vote to approve it. In all cases, adoption is the act or process of adopting, or the state of having adopted. To adopt a tradition or religion is to make it one’s own. To adopt a plan is to approve
to legally take another person's child into your own family and take care of him or her as your own child: They've adopted a baby girl. She had the child adopted (= she gave her baby to someone else to take care of). They have no children of their own, but they're hoping to adopt. Compare. foster verb (TAKE CARE OF) [ T ]
to choose and bring into a certain relationship; specif., to take into one's own family by legal process and raise as one's own child. 2. to take up and use (an idea, a practice, etc.) as one's own. 3. to choose and follow (a course) 4. to vote to accept (a committee report, motion, etc.) 5.
Definition of adopt verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The word adopt has many different shades of meaning, but most relate to the notion of taking something on and treating it as if it’s your own. You’re probably familiar with what happens if you adopt a child: you take on parental responsibilities and accept the child as if it’s your own.
verb. /əˈdɑpt/ Verb Forms. child. [intransitive, transitive] to take someone else's child into your family and become its legal parent (s) a campaign to encourage childless couples to adopt adopt somebody to adopt a child Topic Collocations compare foster. Definitions on the go.
ADOPT definition: 1. to legally become the parents of someone else's child 2. to accept or start using something new: . Learn more.
If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it. The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling on all parties in the conflict to seek a political settlement. Synonyms: take on, follow, support, choose More Synonyms of adopt. adoption (ədɒpʃən ) uncountable noun.
