adoption

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of adopting.

   The project also included seeking the adoption of homosexuals as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International, which would mean simply adding 'sexual orientation' to Article 1A of the Amnesty International mandate.

2. 2
   noun

   The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if they were one's own child.

   A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.

3. 3
   noun

   An admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.

   the adoption of people into hospitals or monasteries

4. 4
   noun

   The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.

   the adoption of opinions

5. 5
   noun

   Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.

   Infuriated by his adoption yesterday, the chess master has resolved to study twice as long and twice as hard.

6. 6
   noun

   the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source

7. 7
   noun

   the act of accepting with approval

8. 8
   noun

   a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood

Etymology

Borrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”). Equivalent to adopt + -ion.