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adopted

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//əˈdɒptɪd//
  • United States//əˈdɑptɪd//

Having been received into a relationship through adoption; adoptive.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been received into a relationship through adoption; adoptive.

  2. 2

    Having been assumed, chosen.

    He was travelling under his adopted name and appearance.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of adoptsimple past and past participle of adopt

Forms

comparative
more adopted
superlative
most adopted
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).