Dictionary Entry
adoption
adoption is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
- 3noun
The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
- 4noun
the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
"the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"
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- 5noun
the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
"its adoption by society"
"the proposal found wide acceptance"
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- 6noun
a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
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