Adoption for gay and lesbian parents remains a hotly contested issue in the United States.
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Adoption
//əˈdɑp.ʃən//
Synonyms for "adoption" (71 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
Related word relations
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7 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
13 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
73 translations across 41 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- υἱοθεσία noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Arabic
1 entries- تَبَنٍّ noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Armenian
1 entries- որդեգրում noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Belarusian
2 entries- удачарэнне noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- усынаўленне noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Bulgarian
2 entries- осиновяване noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- усвояване noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
Catalan
2 entries- adopció noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- adopció noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 收養 /收养 noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- 領養 /领养 noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Czech
2 entries- adopce noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- osvojení noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Danish
1 entries- adoption noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Dutch
1 entries- adoptie noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Esperanto
1 entries- adopto noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Finnish
3 entries- adoptio noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- adoptio noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
- käyttöönotto noun (transfer between old system to another)
French
2 entries- adoption noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- adoption noun (transfer between old system to another)
Galician
1 entries- adopción noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Georgian
2 entries- აყვანა noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- შვილება noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
German
1 entries- Adoption noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰 noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Greek
2 entries- υιοθέτηση noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
- υιοθεσία noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Hebrew
1 entries- אימוץ noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Hungarian
2 entries- adoptálás noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- örökbefogadás noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Indonesian
2 entries- adopsi noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- adopsi noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
Italian
4 entries- adozione noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- adozione noun (transfer between old system to another)
- conversione noun (transfer between old system to another)
- migrazione noun (transfer between old system to another)
Japanese
1 entries- 養子縁組 noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Korean
1 entries- 입양 noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Malay
3 entries- penerimaan noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
- pengambilan noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
- pengambilan anak angkat noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- adopsjon noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- adopsjon noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Old English
1 entries- ġewȳsċing noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Polish
4 entries- adopcja noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- adoptacja noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- przysposobienie noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- usynowienie noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Portuguese
2 entries- adoção noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- adoção noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
Romanian
2 entries- adoptare noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- adopție noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Russian
3 entries- адо́пция noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- удочере́ние noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- усыновле́ние noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- uchd-mhacachd noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- uchd-mhacachd noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- posvajanje noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- posvojenje noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- usvojenje noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Spanish
2 entries- adopción noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- adopción noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
Swedish
2 entries- adoption noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- anammande noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
Tagalog
1 entries- adopsiyon noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Turkish
2 entries- benimseme noun (choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so)
- evlat edinme noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Ukrainian
3 entries- адопта́ція noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- удочері́ння noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
- усино́влення noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַדאָפּטירונג noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Yoruba
1 entries- ìsọdọmọ noun (act of adopting, or state of being adopted)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
The puppy's single good eye begs me for adoption.
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Same-sex adoption rights are an important issue for the LGBT* community.
Source: tatoeba (946979)
The reduction of subsidies to the Cultural Heritage sector requires the adoption of a new paradigm.
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