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adopted

[uh-dopt] Origin

a·dopt

[uh-dopt]
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.
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6.
to accept or act in accordance with (a plan, principle, etc.).
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7.
adopt out, to place (a child) for adoption: The institution may keep a child or adopt it out.

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Origin:
1490–1500; (< Middle French adopter) < Latin adoptāre, equivalent to ad- ad- + optāre to opt

a·dopt·er, noun
non·a·dopt·er, noun
pre·a·dopt, verb (used with object)
qua·si-a·dopt, verb (used with object)
qua·si-a·dopt·ed, adjective
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re·a·dopt, verb (used with object)
un·a·dopt·ed, adjective
well-a·dopt·ed, adjective
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1. adapt, adept, adopt; 2. adopted, adoptive.
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adopted (əˈdɒptɪd)
 
adj
Compare adoptive having been adopted: an adopted child

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adopt
1540s, from Fr. adopter (14c.), from L. adoptare "choose for oneself" (esp. a child); see adoption. Or perhaps a back-formation from Eng. adoption. Originally in Eng. also of friends, fathers, citizens, etc. Sense of "to legally take as one's own child" and that of "to
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embrace, espouse" a practice, method, etc. are from c.1600.
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