adoption

Meaning

Noun

• The act of adopting.
• The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
• Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
• The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance
• Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
• An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
• Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.

Origin

• French adoption, Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare.