Usually means: Take into one's family legally.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word adopt:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. adopt: Merriam-Webster
  2. adopt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adopt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adopt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adopt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adopt, adopt: Wordnik
  7. adopt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adopt: Wiktionary
  9. adopt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adopt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adopt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adopt: Dictionary.com
  13. adopt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Adopt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Adopt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. adopt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. adopt: Rhymezone
  18. adopt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. adopt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. adopt: FreeDictionary.org
  21. adopt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. adopt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. adopt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. adopt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. adopt: Merriam-Webster

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. adopt: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. adopt: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. adopt: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adopt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ADOPT: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. ADOPT: Acronym Finder
  3. adopt: Idioms

(Note: See adoptability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
verb:  To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
verb:  To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
verb:  To contribute towards the upkeep of (a child or animal), in exchange for occasional stories, pictures, etc.
verb:  To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
verb:  To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
verb:  To select and take or approve.
verb:  (chess, slang) To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
noun:  (art, informal) Short for adoptable. [A person or animal that is eligible to be adopted.]

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