Usually means: Legally becoming parent to child.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word adoption:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. adoption: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adoption: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adoption: Collins English Dictionary
  4. adoption: Vocabulary.com
  5. Adoption, adoption: Wordnik
  6. adoption: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. adoption: Wiktionary
  8. adoption: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. adoption: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Adoption, adoption: Dictionary.com
  11. adoption: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. adoption: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Adoption (film), Adoption (software implementation), Adoption (theology), Adoption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Adoption: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. adoption: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. adoption: Rhymezone
  17. Adoption: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. adoption: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. adoption: Free Dictionary
  20. adoption: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. adoption: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Adoption: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. adoption: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. adoption: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. adoption: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Adoption: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. adoption: Legal dictionary
  9. adoption: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Adoption (theology), adoption: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Adoption: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  6. adoption: Medical dictionary

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adoption: Easton Bible
  2. Adoption: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Adoption: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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

(Note: See adoptions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of adopting.
noun:  The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
noun:  An admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
noun:  The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.
noun:  (computing) The transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
noun:  (theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
noun:  (chess, slang) Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.

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