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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adopted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an adopted child (=legally made part of a family that he or she was not born into)
▪ I didn’t find out that I was an adopted child until years later.
your adopted country (=that you have chosen to live in permanently)
▪ I felt proud of my adopted country, America.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
▪ Britain's adopted children had come of age.
▪ For adopted children that quest may include tracing their natural or birth parents.
▪ This includes adopted children or children accepted into the family.
▪ If we believe this, I think it makes the challenge of bringing up adopted children an easier task.
▪ He comments: The adopted child can count upon help and friendship from a larger circle than the ordinary child.
▪ Many women have permanently or temporarily adopted children from other families and are establishing community child-care facilities.
▪ At adolescence, adopted children have the normal crop of teenage problems.
▪ Consequently, they are roughly equivalent to the transracially adopted children.
country
▪ In spite of an inauspicious beginning, Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country.
▪ Klein prided himself on being a loyal subject who had served his adopted country with honour.
▪ It's a historical commonplace that this extraordinary cohort of Hitler's unwanted transformed their adopted country.
▪ We know what Mary's adopted country thought.
▪ And thus this odyssey began, encompassing almost 50 years in the strange new culture of her adopted country.
▪ Many refugee servicemen were decorated and many gave their lives to their adopted country.
▪ Though he's proud of his adopted country, he's angry that the Foreign Secretary has defended the raid.
▪ He never played a game for his adopted country.
daughter
▪ In addition, one adopted son was knighted and an adopted daughter became another dame.
▪ Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeated allegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.
▪ Allen said he was still in love with Soon-Yi, Mia's 21-year-old adopted daughter.
▪ The couple split up after Farrow saw nude pictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, 21, taken by Allen.
▪ The film director said a threat was made after Mia discovered he was having an affair with her adopted daughter.
▪ An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman.
son
▪ In addition, one adopted son was knighted and an adopted daughter became another dame.
▪ Not only had David Anthony been her grandfather's name, but the name he had given his adopted son.
▪ We are not abandoned waifs or orphans, but adopted sons and daughters in a growing family.
▪ Because his adopted son was the father of Marie O'Donnell's baby?
▪ When I raised the question with Richard he readily agreed to become my adopted son.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Browns have one adopted son.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeated allegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.
▪ But Dan Crawley's adopted niece clearly shared Henry's faith in the equine world.
▪ Even Bush's adopted home state of Texas gave Clinton a five percent lead.
▪ He had been roaming New Orleans, his adopted city, for two days.
▪ If we believe this, I think it makes the challenge of bringing up adopted children an easier task.
▪ Robbie had never met any of Caro's adopted family.
▪ The couple split up after Farrow saw nude pictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, 21, taken by Allen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adopted

Adopt \A*dopt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adopted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adopting.] [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See Option.]

  1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

  2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

Adopted

Adopted \A*dopt"ed\, a. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.

Wiktionary
adopted

vb. (en-past of: adopt)

WordNet
adopted

  1. adj. acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country" [syn: adoptive] [ant: native]

  2. having been taken into a specific relationship; "an adopted child"

Wikipedia
Adopted (film)

Adopted is a 2009 American independent film starring comedian Pauly Shore. It is a mockumentary "in which [Pauly] plays himself going to Africa to adopt a child, à la Madonna and Angelina Jolie." The film marks Shore's third turn as a writer, director, and producer.

Usage examples of "adopted".

The cost of abutments and bridge flooring is practically independent of the length of span adopted.

The mistress of the house was fond of ready-made phrases, and she adopted this one, about Julien, very pleased at having invited an academician to dine with them.

She had the careful almost accentless voice of the language student, and her phrases seemed to have been adopted whole from the speech of the grownups around her.

I think we can show that if this idea is adopted, it will open the door toward eventually making many of those reductions and achieving most of our goals.

This was the precise period of time in which our fathers adopted, and during which they followed, a policy restricting the spread of slavery, and the whole Union was acquiescing in it.

He next narrated the plans he had adopted, and was adopting, for the benefit of all who became Chartists.

Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them.

John, the point at which many adoptionists insisted Jesus had been chosen by God to be his adopted son.

And what would the adopted daughter of Lady Agatine Slegin be doing here?

Stilicho obtained the preference over a crowd of rivals, who ambitiously disputed the hand of the princess, and the favor of her adopted father.

Thus the sincere definite decision that the experiment was necessary, would probably do more for American moral and social amelioration than would the specific measures actually adopted and tried.

I said that the tone, the manners I adopted towards her, were those of good society, and proved the great esteem I entertained for her intelligence, but in the middle of all my fine speeches, towards the eleventh or twelfth day of my courtship, she suddenly put me out of all conceit by telling me that, being a priest, I ought to know that every amorous connection was a deadly sin, that God could see every action of His creatures, and that she would neither damn her soul nor place herself under the necessity of saying to her confessor that she had so far forgotten herself as to commit such a sin with a priest.

A counter-proclamation was adopted by this meeting, in which the abandonment of the intended assembling at Clontarf was announced, and the people were exhorted not to assemble.

But many public teachers, not content to treat the subject with this sobriety of reason, instead of presenting the careful conclusions of a conscientious analysis, have sought to strengthen their argument to the feelings by help of prodigious assumptions, assumptions hastily adopted, highly colored, and authoritatively urged.

At your late session a joint resolution was adopted authorizing the President to take measures for facilitating a proper representation of the industrial interests of the United States at the exhibition of the industry of all nations to be holden at London in the year 1862.