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a·dopt Audio Help (ə-dŏpt') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. a·dopt·ed, a·dopt·ing, a·dopts

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.
To take on or assume: adopted an air of importance.
To vote to accept: adopt a resolution.
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.

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adopted
adjective
acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country" [ant: native]

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Adopted

A*dopt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adopted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adopting.] [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See Option.]

1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

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