ADOPT
What does "ADOPT" mean?
To legally take another's child as your own, or to take up and start using an idea or practice.
Meanings
- To legally take a child of other parents and raise it as one's own. They adopted their daughter when she was three.
- To take up and begin to use a method, idea, or attitude. The company adopted a four-day week last year.
- To formally approve or accept a proposal, report, or law. The council adopted the new budget by a narrow vote. formal
- To take an animal from a shelter into one's care. We adopted a one-eyed cat nobody else wanted.
Word origin
From Latin 'adoptare' (to choose for oneself), from 'ad-' (to) plus 'optare' (to wish, choose) - the same root that gives English 'option' and 'opt'.
Remember it
To ADOPT is to OPT to add someone to your life - the verb 'opt' sits right inside it: ad-OPT.
A little poem
Blood is a story you were handed, closed.
To adopt is to pick up a stranger's page
and write the rest as though it had been chosen.
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What it teaches
Family is not only what you are given; it is also what you choose to keep.
Quick facts
What does ADOPT mean?
To legally take another's child as your own, or to take up and start using an idea or practice.
Is ADOPT a valid word?
Yes — ADOPT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ADOPT?
ADOPT has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does ADOPT come from?
From Latin 'adoptare' (to choose for oneself), from 'ad-' (to) plus 'optare' (to wish, choose) - the same root that gives English 'option' and 'opt'.
What can ADOPT teach us?
Family is not only what you are given; it is also what you choose to keep.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.