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Definition of Adoptee
1. Noun. Someone (such as a child) who has been adopted.
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
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 ..."