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We found 52 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word adoption:
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General (31 matching dictionaries)

1. adoption: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. adoption: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. adoption: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
4. adoption: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
5. adoption: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
6. Adoption, adoption: Wordnik [home, info]
7. adoption: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
8. adoption: Wiktionary [home, info]
9. adoption: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
10. adoption: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
11. Adoption, adoption: Dictionary.com [home, info]
12. adoption: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
13. adoption: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
14. adoption: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
15. Adoption (film), Adoption (software implementation), Adoption (theology), Adoption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
16. Adoption: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
17. adoption: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
18. adoption: Rhymezone [home, info]
19. Adoption: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
20. adoption: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
21. Adoption: Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition [home, info]
22. Adoption: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
23. adoption: Free Dictionary [home, info]
24. adoption: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
25. adoption: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
26. adoption: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
27. adoption: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
28. Adoption: UVic Writer's Guide [home, info]
29. Adoption: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]

Business (9 matching dictionaries)

30. Adoption: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
31. adoption: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
32. Adoption: Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary [home, info]
33. adoption: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
34. adoption: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
35. Adoption: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS [home, info]
36. ADOPTION: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
37. adoption: Legal dictionary [home, info]
38. adoption: Financial dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

39. Adoption (theology), adoption: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)

40. Adoption: Reactive Attachment Disorder [home, info]
41. Adoption: Medical Dictionary [home, info]
42. Adoption: Merck Manuals [home, info]
43. adoption: online medical dictionary [home, info]
44. Adoption: National MCH Center for Child Death Review [home, info]
45. adoption: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)

46. Adoption: Easton Bible [home, info]
47. Adoption: Catholic Encyclopedia [home, info]
48. Adoption: Smith's Bible Dictionary [home, info]
49. ADOPTION: Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

50. adoption: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

(Note: See adoptions for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (adoption) ▸ noun:  the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception ("Its adoption by society") ▸ noun:  a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) ▸ noun:  the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source ▸ Also see adoptions ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to adoption ▸ Usage examples for adoption ▸ Idioms related to adoption (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing adoption ▸ Words that often appear near adoption ▸ Rhymes of adoption ▸ Invented words related to adoption