adopt
To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
Other meanings
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
Related words
- adoptedly
- adoptaversary
- nonadopted
- nonadopting
- adoptability
- adoptable
- adoptance
- adoptianism
- adoptious
- adoptor
- preadopt
- readopt
Word history
From Latin "adoptō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “adopt” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.