adoption

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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)

1. The act of adopting. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
4. Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.

5. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance

6. (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.

7. (theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
8. (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

1. genitive singular of adoptio

Anagrams

• adoptoin

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adoptiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔp.sjɔ̃/

Noun

adoption f (plural adoptions)

1. 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

1. adoption

Declension

Related terms

• adoptera
• adoptiv

References

• adoption in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)