adoption

«adoption» in Mova's school dictionary: Taking a child into your family by law and becoming their… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (adoption, adoptions)

meaning for a pupil

1) Taking a child into your family by law and becoming their parent for ever. tree →

2) Taking an animal from a shelter to give it a home: pet adoption. tree →

3) Starting to use a new idea, rule or method: the adoption of a new timetable. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories, adoption is a loving way families are made, and adopted children are as much part of the family as any child. Pet adoption from rescue shelters is common. In formal language it means a school or country starting a new plan. Phrases: put up for adoption, adoption agency, adopted child, pet adoption.

examples

• My cousin joined our family through adoption. tree →
• The shelter holds a pet adoption day every month. tree →
• Adoption makes the child a full member of the family. tree →
• The kitten is up for adoption. tree →
• (formal) The adoption of the new rules took a year. tree →
• They celebrate the day of her adoption with a cake. tree →

note

Verb: adopt; adjective: adopted, adoptive (adoptive parents). Do not confuse adopt (take as your own) with adapt (change to fit). Countable for each case, uncountable for the idea.

In the corpora

• Adoption is when a child whose birth parents can't bring them up joins a new family for good.
• Adoption is made official by a judge in a family court.
• Mila gets a letter from her birth mum once a year, passed on through the adoption agency; this is called letterbox contact.
• Families made by adoption come in many shapes.
• And every year on the day Zac's adoption became official, his family has pizza and a film.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «adoption» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.