1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Adopted

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Lexulous
Wordscraper
Wordosaur

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Simple past tense and past participle of adopt.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. acquired as your own by free choice

Word Usage

"“Supreme Emergency” is a phrase adopted by Walzer from a 1939 speech by Winston Churchill in an attempt to reconcile just war ethics with the killing of innocent civilians entailed in the nighttime bombing of German cities."

Verb Stem

adopt

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

co-opted