English Online Dictionary. What means adoption? What does adoption mean?
English
Etymology
French adoption, Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈdɑp.ʃən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈdɒp.ʃən/
- Hyphenation: adop‧tion
Noun
adoption (countable and uncountable, plural adoptions)
- The act of adopting.
- The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
- An admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
- The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.
- (computing) The transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
- (theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
- (chess, slang) Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.
Derived terms
Translations
References
“adoption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Finnish
Noun
adoption
- genitive singular of adoptio
Anagrams
- adoptoin
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adoptiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dɔp.sjɔ̃/
Noun
adoption f (plural adoptions)
- adoption
Related terms
- adopter
Further reading
- “adoption”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Noun
adoption c
- adoption
Declension
Related terms
- adoptera
- adoptiv
References
- adoption in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)