🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
BNC: 11917 COCA: 10543

— adopted

adjective
adopt
BNC: 11917 COCA: 10543

adopted

adjective

adopt·​ed ə-ˈdäp-təd How to pronounce adopted (audio)
: having been adopted: such as
a
of a child : legally made the son or daughter of someone other than a biological parent
He introduced us to his adopted daughter.
b
: used or chosen in place of or in preference to an original
an adopted name
her adopted home/country

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web This will be her first concert in her adopted hometown since Keys moved here several years ago. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 Stunned by the botched robbery that left her father in an irreversible coma in 1979, Franklin began traveling between California and Detroit to visit her dad and ultimately bought a house in her adopted hometown. Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022 An adopted child who doesn’t know his biological parent still shares 3,400 cMs with that person, and hundreds of centiMorgans with numerous cousins from that parent’s family. Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 20 May 2022 An adopted child becomes your child, as real and visceral as any child would ever be. Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2021 An adopted child becomes your child, as real and visceral as any child would ever be. Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2021 An adopted child becomes your child, as real and visceral as any child would ever be. Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2021 An adopted child becomes your child, as real and visceral as any child would ever be. Washington Post, 28 June 2021 From her base of Coatepec de Morelos, a village near the city of Zitácuaro, Kennedy, who was born in the U.K., continued to explore and discover food in the heart of her adopted homeland, often in her pickup, well into her 90s. Dennis Romero, NBC News, 25 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of adopt

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of adopted was in the 15th century
BNC: 11917 COCA: 10543
BNC: 11917 COCA: 10543
Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google翻譯
^_^: Translate en To zh-TW
adopted
---------
採用
0_0: Translations of adopted
  • # a.
    被采用的: adopted
    被收養的: adopted
    義: adopted, adoptive, artificial, blameless, bogus, chivalric
0_0: Definitions of adopted
  • # verb.
    - legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own.
    * there are many people eager to adopt a baby
    - choose to take up, follow, or use.
    * this approach has been adopted by many big banks
    - take on or assume (an attitude or position).
    * he adopted a patronizing tone

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime