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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
Madonna Ciccone

Meaning of "adoption" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ADOPTION

adoption  [əˈdɒpʃ ən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADOPTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adoption is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADOPTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

adoption

Adoption

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents. Unlike guardianship or other systems designed for the care of the young, adoption is intended to effect a permanent change in status and as such requires societal recognition, either through legal or religious sanction. Historically, some societies have enacted specific laws governing adoption; where others have tried to achieve adoption through less formal means, notably via contracts that specified inheritance rights and parental responsibilities without an accompanying transfer of filiation. Modern systems of adoption, arising in the 20th century, tend to be governed by comprehensive statutes and regulations. Adoption has changed considerably over the centuries with its focus shifting from adult adoption and inheritance issues toward children and family creation; its structure moving from a recognition of continuity between the adopted and kin toward allowing relationships of lessened intensity.

Definition of adoption in the English dictionary

The first definition of adoption in the dictionary is action of taking someone into one's own family. Other definition of adoption is action of choosing. Adoption is also an act of acceptinɡ.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADOPTION


chemoreception
ˌkiːməʊrɪˈsɛpʃ ən
colonization
ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃ ən
congratulation
kənˌɡrætʃʊˈleɪʃ ən
connexion
kəˈnɛkʃ ən
cremation
krɪˈmeɪʃ ən
decomposition
ˌdiːkɒmpəˈzɪʃ ən
dehydration
ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪʃ ən
depletion
dɪˈpliːʃ ən
devastation
ˌdɛvəˈsteɪʃ ən
disruption
dɪsˈrʌpʃ ən
dissemination
dɪˌsɛmɪˈneɪʃ ən
encryption
ɪnˈkrɪpʃ ən
eruption
ɪˈrʌpʃ ən
escalation
ˌɛskəˈleɪʃ ən
evacuation
ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃ ən
evaporation
ɪˌvæpəˈreɪʃ ən
exemption
ɪɡˈzɛmpʃ ən
exploitation
ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃ ən
fabrication
ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃ ən
fascination
ˌfæsɪˈneɪʃ ən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADOPTION

adonize
adoors
adopt
adoptability
adoptable
adopted
adoptee
adopter
adoptianism
adoptianist
adoption agency
adoption curve
adoption panel
adoption papers
adoptionism
adoptionist
adoptious
adoptive
adoptively
adorability

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADOPTION

absorption
accreditation
alcohol consumption
assumption
caption
conception
consumption
corruption
deception
description
exception
inception
inscription
job description
option
perception
prescription
reception
redemption
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Synonyms and antonyms of adoption in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ADOPTION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «adoption» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of adoption

Translation of «adoption» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADOPTION

Find out the translation of adoption to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adoption from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adoption» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

收养
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adopción
570 millions of speakers

English

adoption
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोद लेने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تَبَنَّي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

усыновление
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adoção
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্রহণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adoption
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengangkatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Adoption
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

養子縁組
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

입양
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adopsi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

việc nhận làm con nuôi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தத்தெடுப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अवलंब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

evlat edinme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

adozione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

adopcja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

усиновлення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adopție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υιοθεσία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aanneming
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

adoption
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

adopsjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adoption

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADOPTION»

The term «adoption» is very widely used and occupies the 8.723 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADOPTION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adoption

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10 QUOTES WITH «ADOPTION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word adoption.
1
Chris Anderson
And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.
2
Marc Andreessen
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
3
Peter Barris
I'd love to see the secondary markets become more widespread in terms of their adoption.
4
Yves Behar
My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
5
Eric Betzig
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
6
Harold Brodkey
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
7
Joy Bryant
If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.
8
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
9
Madonna Ciccone
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
10
Herbert Croly
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADOPTION»

Discover the use of adoption in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adoption and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
This book is a must read for anyone interested in adoption and for all adoptive families. It will also be a valuable resource for adoption professionals.
Deborah D. Gray, 2012
2
Adoption
Discusses what it means to be part of a family and examines some feelings that adopted children may have.
Fred Rogers, Jim Judkis, 1998
3
Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension in Family ...
Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men is an interdisciplinary examination of the myths, misconceptions, research, and practice literature related to sexual-minority individuals' efforts to adopt and raise children.
David Brodzinsky, Adam Pertman, 2012
4
The Morality of Adoption: Social-psychological, Theological, ...
Contributors to this volume cover important topics in adoption, including John C. Mayoue on embryonic adoption, Sandra Patton-Imani on adoption and race, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen and Gretchen Miller Wrobel on the moral psychology of ...
Timothy Patrick Jackson, 2005
5
Adoption: A Reference Handbook
This work is an indispensable resource for those thinking about adoption or researching its history.
Barbara A. Moe, 2007
6
The Psychology of Adoption
In this volume David Brodzinsky, who has conducted one of the nation's largest studies of adopted children, and Marshall Schechter, a noted child psychiatrist who has been involved with adoption related issues for over forty years, have ...
David M. Brodzinsky Associate Professor of Developmental and Clinical Psychology Rutgers University, Marshall D. Schechter Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Emeritus), 1990
7
Adoption: opposing viewpoints
Experts debate the issues surrounding adoption, including discussions on family preservation, a child's identity, and adoption rights and policies.
Roman Espejo, 2002
8
Intercountry Adoption: A Multinational Perspective
This volume's contributors describe the experiences of foreign born adoptees and their families in such countries as the United States, Canada, Norway, West Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Israel.
Howard Altstein, Rita James Simon, 1991
9
Adoption and Surrogate Pregnancy
This text covers the ways in which adoption and surrogate pregnancy overlap and influence each other, the nuances that further complicate matters, and the controversies surrounding both issues. "...an excellent resource for reports.
Faith Merino, 2010
10
The Politics of Adoption: International Perspectives on Law, ...
From the perspective of recent fundamental change to the law, policy and practice of adoption in the U.K., this book examined that of other common law jurisdictions and contrasted this with the experience of countries with quite different ...
Kerry O'Halloran, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADOPTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adoption is used in the context of the following news items.
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#LetsMakeASEEN: Three Rivers Adoption Council
What comes to mind when thinking of the word “adoption?” The most obvious is that of a newborn baby wrapped lovingly into its new parents' ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
2
Councils get £30m fund to speed up adoption searches
Last year it emerged that the number of children being put forward for adoption had nearly halved in 12 months. Photograph: Alamy. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Sweet shepherd mix up for adoption
Sweet shepherd mix up for adoption ... the 3-month-old male brown and white tabby kitten featured last week, is still available for adoption. «Valley morning Star, Jul 15»
4
Buckner adoption, foster meeting set in Longview
A free meeting about foster care and adoption is being offered by Buckner Children and Family Services at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Buckner's offices, ... «Longview News-Journal, Jul 15»
5
July 11th Multi Dog Rescue Adoption Event at Coxe & Graziano
July 11th Multi Dog Rescue Adoption Event at Coxe & Graziano ... Home have graciously offered their parking lot for a dog adoption event on ... «Greenwich Free Press, Jul 15»
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Adoption series: BC studies using online photos of kids to seek …
For now, B.C. has an online list that offers a description of each child waiting for adoption, but there's no way to see what the kids look like. «Vancouver Sun, Jul 15»
7
Building families through embryo adoption
On right, Arthur Rojas, director of Adoption Specialists of Arizona, looks on as Tim and Dana Eriksson laugh with Stone, 3 months, and River, 3. «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»
8
Some impacts of gay marriage ruling — such as adoption and …
State law does not permit two-parent adoption unless the would-be parents are married — and the same-sex marriage ban meant gay couples ... «Omaha World-Herald, Jul 15»
9
Same-sex marriage ruling spurs revision of state's adoption policies …
The adoption was finalized last month, before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage that will allow the two men to ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jul 15»
10
Dog and cat adoption specials for July
RICHMOND — In celebration of Independence Day, an area shelter is offering discounted adoption rates on the Fourth of July, and some offer ... «wtvr.com, Jul 15»

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