Usually means: Parent who legally adopts child.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. adoptive parent: Merriam-Webster
  2. adoptive parent: Vocabulary.com
  3. adoptive parent: Dictionary.com
  4. Adoptive parent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. adoptive parent: Rhymezone
  6. adoptive parent: FreeDictionary.org
  7. adoptive parent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. adoptive parent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. adoptive parent: Merriam-Webster
  10. adoptive parent: Wiktionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. adoptive parent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adoptive parent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adoptive parent: Medical dictionary

(Note: See adoptive_parents as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (adoptive parent)

noun:  A person who adopts a child and brings it up as their own.


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