adoption

adoption has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
• n.. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
• n.. the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"
• n.. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"
• n.. 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)