Words Like ADOPTION

We have put together a list of words that are similar to ADOPTION.

14 Alternative Words Similar to adoption

1 Acceptance Noun      Synonym Words Like Acceptance
2 Acceptation Noun      Synonym Words Like Acceptation
3 Espousal Noun      Synonym Words Like Espousal
4 Borrowing Noun      Synonym Words Like Borrowing
5 Appropriation Noun      Synonym Words Like Appropriation
6 Approval Noun      Synonym Words Like Approval
7 Approving Noun      Synonym Words Like Approving
8 Blessing Noun      Synonym Words Like Blessing
9 Proceeding Noun      Synonym Words Like Proceeding
10 Proceedings Noun      Synonym Words Like Proceedings
11 Naturalisation Noun      Hyponym Words Like Naturalisation
12 Naturalization Noun      Hyponym Words Like Naturalization
13 Bosom Noun      Hyponym Words Like Bosom
14 Embrace Noun      Hyponym Words Like Embrace

3 examples of adoption

1 the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another
2 the adoption of opinions
3 the proposal found wide acceptance

9 definitions of adoption

1 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.
2 Admission to a more intimate relation; reception.
3 The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.
4 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)
5 the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
6 the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
7 The act of adopting or taking as one's own; a choosing for use, or by way of preference or approval; assumption; formal acceptance: as, the adoption of a distinctive dress; he favored the adoption of the bill; the adoption of a new word into a language.
8 The act of taking into an affiliated relation; admission to some or all of the privileges of natural kinship or membership: as, the adoption of a child; adoption into a tribe; a son by adoption.
9 In theology, that act of divine grace by which, through Christ, those who have been justified “are taken into the number and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God.”
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