Lexic.us

Definition of Adopt

1. Verb. Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans. "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"

2. Verb. Take up and practice as one's own.

3. Verb. Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities. "When will the new President assume office?"

4. Verb. Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect. "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"

5. Verb. Take into one's family. "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"

6. Verb. Put into dramatic form. "Did he adopt his major works over a short period of time?"; "Adopt a book for a screenplay"

7. Verb. Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own. "They adopted the Jewish faith"

Definition of Adopt

1. v. t. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

Definition of Adopt

1. Verb. (transitive with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, (non-gloss definition as,) child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.(rfex) ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To select and take or approve. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adopt

1. to take into one's family by legal means [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adopt

adonis adonis blue adonis blues adonise adonised adonises adonising adonist adonists adonitol

adonize adonized adonizes adonizing adoors adopt (current term) adopt out adoptabilities adoptability adoptable

adopted adoptedly adoptee adoptees adopter adopters adoptianism adoptianisms adopting adoption

Literary usage of Adopt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... for this biennial premium, the academy will be pleased to adopt such regulations as they in their wisdom may judge to be proper and necessary. ..."

2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"On one circumstance only connected with these wars we must 'touch for a moment, because in his relation of it Mr. Longman shows a desire to adopt an opinion ..."

3. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"the evidence of the poems is overwhelming against the F in this word. It would of course be easy to adopt ..."

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