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adoption


adoption - noun

  • the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
  • a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
  • the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
  • adoption - thesaurus

    acceptance   acceptation   borrowing   espousal  

    Scrabble score for adoption

    a is 1 d is 2 o is 1 p is 3 t is 1 i is 1 o is 1 n is 1
    Scrabble score = 11

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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