Usually means: Legally made part of family.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Adopted:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. adopted: Merriam-Webster
  2. adopted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. adopted: Vocabulary.com
  4. Adopted, adopted: Wordnik
  5. adopted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. adopted: Wiktionary
  7. Adopted, adopted: Dictionary.com
  8. adopted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Adopted (film), Adopted, The Adopted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Adopted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. adopted: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. adopted: Rhymezone
  13. Adopted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. adopted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. adopted: FreeDictionary.org
  16. adopted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. adopted: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. adopted: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. adopted: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. adopted: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. adopted: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. adopted: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adopted: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adopted: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adopted: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Adopted)

▸ noun:  a 2009 American independent mockumentary film starring comedian Pauly Shore as himself, "going to Africa to adopt a child, à la Madonna and Angelina Jolie."


Opposite:
rejected, disowned, abandoned, ignored, neglected

Types:
international, domestic, open, closed, step, half, full, foster, foster-to-adopt, adoptive, more...

Phrases:
adopted child, United States Adopted Name, adopted parent, Adopted child syndrome, Childebert the Adopted, more...

Adjectives:
various, non, political, state, democratic, final



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Opposite:
rejected, disowned, abandoned, ignored, neglected

Types:
international, domestic, open, closed, step, half, full, foster, foster-to-adopt, adoptive, more...

Phrases:
adopted child, United States Adopted Name, adopted parent, Adopted child syndrome, Childebert the Adopted, adopted son, widely adopted, a person who is adopted, adopted mother, adopted family, more...

Adjectives:
various, non, political, state, democratic, final




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