ADOPTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adopted mean? 

• ADOPTED (adjective)
  The adjective ADOPTED has 1 sense:

1. acquired as your own by free choice

  Familiarity information: ADOPTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADOPTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acquired as your own by free choice

Synonyms:

adopted; adoptive

Context example:

an adoptive country

Antonym:

native (belonging to one by birth)

 Context examples 

Other children live in orphanages or with birth relatives until they can be adopted.

(Adoption, NIH)

No trace has ever been found of the great dog; at which there is much mourning, for, with public opinion in its present state, he would, I believe, be adopted by the town.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“I have no other claim upon my means; at least”—here to my surprise she hesitated, and was confused—“no, I have no other claim upon my means—and you are my adopted child.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To achieve these goals, CAMDA adopted the approach of community-wide experiment, letting the scientific community analyze the same standard data sets.

(Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

This set of criteria are reviewed by and agreed upon by the user community or a governing body before they are released and adopted for use.

(Data Standard, NCI Thesaurus)

As the number of large houses close to Oxshott must be limited, I adopted the obvious method of sending to the agents mentioned by Scott Eccles and obtaining a list of them.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the open plain clouds of light horse galloped and swooped with swaying bodies and waving javelins, after the fashion which the Spanish had adopted from their Moorish enemies.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There's a breeze coming, Jim,” said Silver, who had by this time adopted quite a friendly and familiar tone.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A position adopted by the fetus during labor when its head moves down into the maternal pelvic cavity.

(Fetal Engagement, NCI Thesaurus)

NCIt has been produced by NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) since 1997, and adopted since then for use by numerous federal agencies, standards development and research organizations.

(NCI Thesaurus, NCI Thesaurus)