Adonis
— Noun
– English
～ (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone; "when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite"
Adonis
— Noun
– English
～ annual or perennial herbs
adopt
— Verb
– English
～ take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?"
adopt
— Verb
– English
～ take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"
adopt
— Verb
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～ choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
adopt
— Verb
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～ take up and practice as one's own
adopt
— Verb
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～ take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"
adopt
— Verb
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～ put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"
adopt
— Verb
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～ take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
adoptable
— Adjective
– English
～ suitable or eligible for adoption; "a shortage of adoptable babies"
adopted
— Adjective
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～ acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country"
adoptee
— Noun
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～ someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
adopter
— Noun
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～ a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
adoption
— Noun
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～ 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)
adoption
— Noun
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～ the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"
adoption
— Noun
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～ the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"
adoptive
— Adjective
– English
～ acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country"
adoptive
— Adjective
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～ of parents and children; related by adoption; "adoptive parents"
adorability
— Noun
– English
～ extreme attractiveness
adorable
— Adjective
– English
～ lovable especially in a childlike or naive way