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adoption

English

  1. 🔊 the act of accepting with approval
    “its adoption by society”
  2. 🔊 a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood
  3. 🔊 the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
    “the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 prohijamiento adoption
  2. 🔊 ahijamiento adoption, adopting, fostering (especially the adoption or fostering of a child who is related by blood)

Similar words

borrowing acceptance acceptation espousal americanization acceptance acculturation admission affiliation appropriation arrogation assimilation assumption borrowed plumes circumcision citizenship by naturalization citizenship papers colonization conquest conversion copying culture shock derivation deriving