adoption

Nouns

  • (n) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
    • its adoption by society
    • the proposal found wide acceptance
    acceptance, acceptation, espousal,
  • (n) 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)
  • (n) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
    • the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent
    borrowing,

Synonyms

acceptance acceptation espousal borrowing

Words of close approximity

adoptive