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a·dop·tive

(ə-dŏp′tĭv)

adj.

a. Characteristic of or having to do with adoption.

b. Related by adoption: "increased honesty and sharing between birth families, adoptive families and adoptees" (Robyn S. Quinter).

2. Being a place that one has moved to or resettled in: our adoptive city. See Usage Note at adopt.

a·dop′tive·ly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

adoptive

(əˈdɒptɪv)

adj

1. acquired or related by adoption: an adoptive father.

2. of or relating to adoption. Compare adopted

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

a•dop•tive

(əˈdɒp tɪv)

adj.

1. of or involving adoption.

2. acquired or related by adoption: an adoptive father.

3. tending to adopt.

[1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin]

a•dop′tive•ly, adv.

usage: adoptive is customarily applied to the parent (her adoptive mother) and adopted to the child (their adopted son).

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Adj.	1.	adoptive - of parents and children; related by adoption; "adoptive parents" biological - of parents and children; related by blood; "biological child"
	2.	adoptive - acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country" adopted

Translations

مُتَعَلِّق بِالتَبَنِّي

adoptivní

foster-

adoptivo

adoptif

örökbe fogadó

uppeldis-, fóstur-

adottivo supposto

foster-

adoptívny

evlâtlığa kabul eden

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adoptive

[əˈdɒptɪv] ADJ → adoptivo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

adoptive

[əˈdɒptɪv] adj

[child, parents, mother, father, family] → adoptif/ive

[country, home] → d'adoption, adoptif/ive

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

adoptive

adj → Adoptiv-; adoptive parents → Adoptiveltern pl; adoptive home/country → Wahlheimat f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

adoptive

[əˈdɒptɪv] adj → adottivo/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

adopt

(əˈdopt) verb

1. to take (a child of other parents) as one's own. Since they had no children of their own they decided to adopt a little girl.

2. to take (something) as one's own. After going to France he adopted the French way of life.

aˈdoption (-ʃən) noun

aˈdoptive (-tiv) adjective

his adoptive father.

adoptive

a. adoptivo-a;

___child → hijo ___, hija ___ adoptivo, -a; ___immune therapy → terapia de inmunidad pasiva.

adoptive

adj adoptivo; — parents padres adoptivos

References in classic literature ?

As Philolaus gave them laws concerning many other things, so did he upon adoption, which they call adoptive laws; and this he in particular did to preserve the number of families.

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Under these reasonable limitations, the door of this part of the federal government is open to merit of every description, whether native or adoptive, whether young or old, and without regard to poverty or wealth, or to any particular profession of religious faith.

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After twelve years of banishment from the land of their first allegiance, during which they had been under an adoptive and temporary subjection to another sovereign, they must naturally have been led to reflect upon the relative rights and duties of allegiance and subjection.

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Misconceptions and myths surrounding the matter mostly made adoptive children feel embarrassed for the sole reason that they are not related to their parents by blood.