Definitions for adopt

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adopt a·dopt

Spelling: [uh-dopt]

IPA: /əˈdɒpt/

Adopt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in adopt (adopt).

Definitions for adopt

Verb phrases

1. adopt out, to place (a child) for adoption:

verb (used with object)

1. to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent:
2. to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act.
3. to take or receive into any kind of new relationship:
4. to select as a basic or required textbook or series of textbooks in a course.
5. to vote to accept:
6. to accept or act in accordance with (a plan, principle, etc.).

Origin of adopt

1490-1500; (Middle French adopter) Latin adoptāre, equivalent to ad- ad- + optāre to opt

Examples for adopt

Because he had come to live there was no reason why it should adopt him.

Now Wisconsin is considering making it mandatory for parents who adopt overseas to have their children “re-adopted” in the state.

She seemed to take charge, to adopt me with the house, to accept and audit and vouch for us.

She's rather too old, and I'm rather too young to adopt her; but I daresay she would marry me.

She began to adopt a neorealist aesthetic, seeing the beauty in “imperfections.”

He would not adopt a nameless orphan, found with a poor goatherd of Phelle.

Some of the most explosive opportunities could be based around things that the Western world seems reluctant to adopt.

I can hardly think that Parliament will adopt a different view.

How many shootings will it take before we adopt common sense gun control?

Wins such as Hobby Lobby, far from leading them to adopt a more relaxed posture, merely prove the need for more work.