simple past tense and past participle of adopt

Related through adoption. / Pertaining to adoption.

The act of adopting. / The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

one who adopts

plural of adoption

(rare) adoption

(rare) adoptive

Of or relating to adoption.

To expel a child from a family by placing them for adoption; to put a child up for adoption privately, without going through an adoption agency.

A man who has adopted a child, as opposed to a biological father.