adoption B2 Topic:Actions & Processes US /əˈdɑp.ʃən/ UK /əˈdɒp.ʃən/ See IPA manual Minimal pairs Sounds like adaption /æ/ vs /ɑ/ Freq #7330 Meanings 1 noun The act of legally taking a child into your family to raise as your own. The baby was given up for adoption at birth. 2 noun The act of starting to use a particular method, idea, or way of doing things. The adoption of the new software improved the team's efficiency. Thesaurus Synonyms 2 noun · the act of starting to use... acceptance Word family Forms adoptions Derived forms adoptionaladoptionismadoptionistantiadoptioncoadoptionnonadoptionpostadoptionpreadoptionproadoptionreadoptionunadoption Etymology AI details Borrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”). Equivalent to adopt + -ion. adoptio Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Actions & Processes External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # adoption **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /əˈdɑp.ʃən/ **IPA (UK):** /əˈdɒp.ʃən/ **Frequency rank:** 7330 ## Meanings 1. The act of legally taking a child into your family to raise as your own. 2. The act of starting to use a particular method, idea, or way of doing things. ## Examples - The baby was given up for adoption at birth. - The adoption of the new software improved the team's efficiency. ## Derived Forms - adoptional - adoptionism - adoptionist - antiadoption - coadoption - nonadoption - postadoption - preadoption - proadoption - readoption - unadoption ## Roots and Affixes - Root: adoptio ## Etymology Borrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”). Equivalent to adopt + -ion. ## AI Etymology Adoption is borrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”). Equivalent to adopt plus -ion. The formation is semantically transparent: the parts remain visible, while the compound or affix fixes the grammatical role and narrows the modern meaning. In use as a noun, adoption denotes the act of legally taking a child into your family to raise as your own and the act of starting to use a particular method, idea, or way of doing things. The same word family continues in derived forms such as adoptional, adoptionism, adoptionist, and antiadoption. ## Topics - Actions & Processes markdown