Adoption Definition
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French adoption, Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt.
Noun
adoption (plural adoptions)
- 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.
- A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.
- Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
- The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
Finnish
Noun
adoption
- Genitive singular form of adoptio.
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French
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Noun
adoption f. (plural adoptions)
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Swedish
Noun
adoption c.
Declension
Declension of adoption| singular | plural | |||
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| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | adoption | adoptionen | adoptioner | adoptionerna |
| genitive | adoptions | adoptionens | adoptioners | adoptionernas |
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References
- adoption in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
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