If you can't have children, you could always adopt.
Source: tatoeba (1836)
Adopt
/əˈdɒpt/
Synonyms for "adopt" (222 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (45)
Verb(15 words)
Noun(14 words)
acquiringafrikaans leeralgorithm design methodologyapply scientific methodapproach the topicapproach to learningappropriatingart trendassimilatingassumingbandwagonborrowed lexemeborrowed word formborrowing
Adjective(2 words)
american history textbook approachborrowed books
Strong matches (66)
Verb(23 words)
Noun(20 words)
Adjective(3 words)
communal decision making modelcommunal decision making policyenvironmental system approach
Related words (111)
Verb(24 words)
ingraininheritinnovatesinternalizeinternalizesintroducelatchedlegislatedmimickedpersuadedradicalizedraiserearresortedselectsubscribesubscribedsweep uptaketake in
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Noun(40 words)
instituteinternalizinglanguage borrowinglanguage education trendlatchlatcheslearning strategymagpiesmainstreammainstreamingminoanizingmodel organisms approachmodel schoolmost policy movepassespolicy movepolitical transition processposingpositionpostures
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project based curriculumproject organization approachresortresortingresortsrole playsecret code protocolservice learning pedagogyservice orientedset beliefsstate change verbsystems thinking classroomtech pioneersthe livingtransitionuptakesuse fixed groupingwelcomeswhole organism approachwhole organism study
invadejump a claimmake free withmake use ofmockmonopolizenaturalizeoccupyoverrunpasspirateplagiarizeplay godpreemptpreoccupyprepossesspretendpretend toratifyrequisition
Adjective(8 words)
legal measurenatural system approachnew convertroman brandingshared creedshared decision making processshared software componentsustainable practice
Determiner(1 words)
more waste management system
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More general
13 entriesMore specific
10 entriesdomestic adoptionguidelines adoptioninternational adoptionmethod adoptionpolicy adoptionstance adoptionstandards adoptiontechnology adoptiontheory adoptionviewpoint adoption
Collocations
6 entriesadopt a frameworkadopt a methodadopt a policyadopt a stanceadopt an approachadopt core values
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 51 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَبَنَّى verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Armenian
1 entries- որդեգրել verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Aromanian
1 entries- nhiljedz verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Bulgarian
2 entries- осиновя́ verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- осиновя́вам verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Catalan
1 entries- adoptar verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 收養 /收养 verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Cornish
2 entries- adoptya verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- asvaba verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Czech
2 entries- adoptovat verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- osvojit verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Danish
1 entries- adoptere verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Dutch
2 entries- aannemen verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- adopteren verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Esperanto
1 entries- adopti verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Faroese
1 entries- ættleiða verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Finnish
1 entries- adoptoida verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
French
1 entries- adopter verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Galician
2 entries- adoptar verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- porfillar verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
German
1 entries- adoptieren verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Greek
1 entries- υιοθετώ verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- adokte verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Hebrew
1 entries- אִמֵּץ verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Hungarian
3 entries- adoptál verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- befogad verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- örökbe fogad verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Icelandic
1 entries- ættleiða verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Italian
1 entries- adottare verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Japanese
1 entries- 養子にする verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Khmer
1 entries- ចិញ្ចឹម verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Korean
1 entries- 입양하다 verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Latin
1 entries- adoptō verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Latvian
1 entries- adoptēt verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Malay
1 entries- angkat verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- adoptere verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- adoptera verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Old English
1 entries- ġewȳsċan verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Persian
1 entries- پذیرفتن verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Polish
4 entries- adoptować verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- przysposabiać verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- przysposobić verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- zaadoptować verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Portuguese
1 entries- adotar verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Quechua
1 entries- churichakuy verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Romanian
1 entries- adopta verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Russian
4 entries- удочери́ть verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- удочеря́ть verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- усынови́ть verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- усыновля́ть verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- uchd-mhacaich verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- posvojiti verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- usvojiti verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- усвојити verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Slovak
2 entries- adoptovať verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- osvojiť si verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Spanish
2 entries- adoptar verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- ahijar verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Swahili
1 entries- panga verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Swedish
1 entries- adoptera verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Tamil
1 entries- தத்தெடு verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Telugu
1 entries- పెంచుకొను verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Turkish
1 entries- evlat edinmek verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Ukrainian
4 entries- вдочеря́ти verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- всино́влювати verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- удочеря́ти verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
- усино́влювати verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nhận làm con nuôi verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Welsh
1 entries- mabwysiadu verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַדאָפּטירן verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Zazaki
1 entries- depıtene verb (to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
We have decided to adopt your idea.
Source: tatoeba (17170)
We will adopt your method at our school.
Source: tatoeba (23441)
All things considered, we'll adopt his project.
Source: tatoeba (51668)
Showing 4 of 26 available sentences.