adoption
The act of adopting.
Other meanings
The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if they were one's own child.
“A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.”
An admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
Synonyms
- acceptance
Related words
- adoptional
- antiadoption
- coadoption
- nonadoption
- postadoption
- preadoption
- readoption
- unadoption
- adoptionism
- adoptionist
- proadoption
- closed adoption
Word history
From Latin "adoptio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “adoption” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.