adoption — meaning in English

English meaning

• adoption noun The legal process of taking a child into your family as your own.

Senses

adoption is used for these senses in English:

• adoption The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
• adoption The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.

adoption — full definition

1. noun The legal process of taking a child into your family as your own.
2. noun The act of starting to use or accept something, such as a method, technology, or plan.

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