Associations to the word «Adoption»

Wiktionary

ADOPTION, noun. 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.
ADOPTION, noun. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
ADOPTION, noun. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
ADOPTION, noun. (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.

Dictionary definition

ADOPTION, noun. The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance".
ADOPTION, 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).
ADOPTION, noun. The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King