adoption

1. n. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. Source: opted

2. n. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. Source: opted

3. n. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Source: opted

4. n. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception Source: wordnet

5. n. a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) Source: wordnet

6. n. the appropriation (of ideas or words etc.) from another source Source: wordnet

7. 1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. 3. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor. Source: webster

8. n:100 n. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception n. a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) Source: ecdict

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