adopt

[uh-dopt] /əˈdɒpt/
verb (used with object)
1.
to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent:
to adopt a nickname.
2.
to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act.
3.
to take or receive into any kind of new relationship:
to adopt a person as a protégé.
4.
to select as a basic or required textbook or series of textbooks in a course.
5.
to vote to accept:
The House adopted the report.
6.
to accept or act in accordance with (a plan, principle, etc.).
Verb phrases
7.
adopt out, to place (a child) for adoption:
The institution may keep a child or adopt it out.
Origin
1490-1500; (< Middle French adopter) < Latin adoptāre, equivalent to ad- ad- + optāre to opt
Related forms
adopter, noun
nonadopter, noun
preadopt, verb (used with object)
quasi-adopt, verb (used with object)
quasi-adopted, adjective
readopt, verb (used with object)
unadopted, adjective
well-adopted, adjective
Can be confused
adapt, adept, adopt.
adopted, adoptive.
Examples from the web for adopted
  • However, few adopted his ideas on the physical basis for celestial motions.
  • Automatically through a long cable but it was never adopted.
  • This clerical form uses two fewer strokes, and was thus adopted as a simplified form.
  • Pay last drawn being advantageous it has to be adopted rs.
  • The city manager plan has been adopted by a large number of cities.
  • The original image was a popular humorous graphic for many decades before mad adopted it.
  • The steampunk genre of science fiction has adopted the zeppelin as something of a mascot.
  • Many cultures used patronymics before surnames were adopted or came into use.
  • Slaves were often adopted, and if they proved unfilial, were reduced to slavery again.
  • By the middle ages, some writers adopted more relaxed versions of the meter.
British Dictionary definitions for adopted

adopted

/əˈdɒptɪd/
adjective
1.
having been adopted: an adopted child Compare adoptive

adopt

/əˈdɒpt/
verb (transitive)
1.
(law) to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child
2.
to choose and follow (a plan, technique, etc)
3.
to take over (an idea, etc) as if it were one's own
4.
to take on; assume: to adopt a title
5.
to accept (a report, etc)
Derived Forms
adoptee, noun
adopter, noun
adoption, noun
Word Origin
C16: from Latin adoptāre to choose for oneself, from optāre to choose
Word Origin and History for adopted

adopt

v.

c.1500, a back-formation from adoption or else from Middle French adopter or directly from Latin adoptare "take by choice, choose for oneself, select, choose" (especially a child). Originally in English also of friends, fathers, citizens, etc. Sense of "to legally take as one's own child" and that of "to embrace, espouse" a practice, method, etc. are from c.1600. Related: Adopted; adopting.