Adopt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child.
  • v. To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent: adopt a new technique.
  • v. To take up and make one's own: adopt a new idea.
  • v. To take on or assume: adopted an air of importance.
  • v. To vote to accept: adopt a resolution.
  • v. To choose as standard or required in a course: adopt a new line of English textbooks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
  • v. To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
  • v. To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
  • v. To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
  • v. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
  • v. To select and take or approve.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • v. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To choose for or take to one's self; make one's own by selection or assent; receive or agree to as a personal belonging or opinion: as, to adopt a name or an idea; an adopted citizen or country; the meeting adopted the resolution.
  • Specifically, to admit into a relation of affiliation; confer the rights or privileges of kinship upon, as one who is not naturally related or connected; especially, to receive and treat as a child or member of one's family, etc.: as, the orphans were adopted by friends. See adoption, 2. To take or receive into any kind of new relationship: as, to adopt a person as an heir, or as a friend, guide, or example.
  • In euchre, to play with the suit turned up for trumps: a privilege of the dealer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. put into dramatic form
  • v. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
  • v. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
  • v. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
  • v. take up and practice as one's own
  • v. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
  • v. take into one's family
  • Verb Form
    adopted    adopting    adopts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pen    indite    write    compose    have    accept    take   
    Form
    adopted    adopting   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    chopped    co-opt    copped    cropped    dropped    flopped    hopped    lopped    mopped    opt   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts