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a⋅dopt

  [uh-dopt]
Use adopted in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
2. to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act.
3. to take or receive into any kind of new relationship: to adopt a person as a protégé.
4. to select as a basic or required textbook or series of textbooks in a course.
5. to vote to accept: The House adopted the report.
6. to accept or act in accordance with (a plan, principle, etc.).
—Verb phrase
7. adopt out, to place (a child) for adoption: The institution may keep a child or adopt it out.
Origin:
1490–1500; (< MF adopter) < L adoptāre, equiv. to ad- ad- + optāre to opt

Related forms:
a⋅dopt⋅er, noun
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a·dopt   (ə-dŏpt')   
tr.v.   a·dopt·ed, a·dopt·ing, a·dopts
  1. To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child.
    1. To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent: adopt a new technique.
    2. To take up and make one's own: adopt a new idea.
  3. To take on or assume: adopted an air of importance.
  4. To vote to accept: adopt a resolution.
  5. To choose as standard or required in a course: adopt a new line of English textbooks.

[Middle English adopten, from Old French adopter, from Latin adoptāre : ad-, ad- + optāre, to choose.]
a·dopt'a·bil'i·ty n., a·dopt'a·ble adj., a·dopt'er n., a·dop'tion n.
Usage Note: Children are adopted by parents, and one normally refers to an adopted child but to adoptive parents, families, and homes. When describing places, one can use either adopted or adoptive: She enjoys living in her adopted country. Detroit is their adoptive city.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Adopted

A*dopt"ed\, a. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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