Adoption

Definition:

• (n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
• (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
• (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

Compare adoption with other words:

adeption vs. adoption

adaptation vs. adoption

adaption vs. adoption

abandonment vs. adoption

adoption vs. sanction

adoption vs. naturalization

adoption vs. adoptionist

adoption vs. assimilation

adoption vs. adoptive

adoption vs. kinship

adoption vs. gens

adoption vs. agitation

adopt vs. adoption

adoption vs. blood