Definition of Adoptee

1. Noun. Someone (such as a child) who has been adopted.

Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Derivative terms: Adopt

Definition of Adoptee

1. Noun. An adopted son or daughter. A foster child. ¹

2. Noun. A person who was adopted as a child. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adoptee

1. one that is adopted [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adoptee

adonist
adonists
adonitol
adonize
adonized
adonizes
adonizing
adoors
adopt
adopt out
adoptabilities
adoptability
adoptable
adopted
adoptedly
adoptee (current term)
adoptees
adopter
adopters
adoptianism
adoptianisms
adopting
adoption
adoptionism
adoptionisms
adoptionist
adoptionists
adoptions
adoptious
adoptive

Literary usage of Adoptee

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

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... and independent State. adoptee!, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopting amendments to the said Constitution, ..."

2. Life, Death, and Litigation in the Athenian Agora by Mabel Lang (1994)
"This is the situation as described by the adoptee, in whose interest it ... Even so, this is not a simple case of the adoptee defending his right to ..."

3. Individual Differences in the Behavioral Etiology of Drug Abuse edited by Harold W. Gordon, Meyer D. Glantz (1997)
"There's a third pathway: An adoptive family that had someone in the family who was an alcohol abuser or dependent increases the probability of an adoptee's ..."

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