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We found 40 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word adopt:
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General (29 matching dictionaries)

1. adopt: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. adopt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. adopt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. adopt: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. adopt: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. adopt: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Adopt, adopt: Wordnik [home, info]
8. adopt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. adopt: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. adopt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. adopt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. adopt: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. adopt: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. adopt: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
15. adopt: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
16. Adopt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
17. Adopt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
18. adopt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
19. adopt: Rhymezone [home, info]
20. adopt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
21. adopt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
22. adopt: Free Dictionary [home, info]
23. adopt: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
24. adopt: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
25. adopt: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
26. adopt: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
27. adopt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

28. Adopt: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
29. adopt: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
30. adopt: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
31. Adopt: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
32. adopt: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
33. adopt: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

34. adopt: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

35. ADOPT: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

36. adopt: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]
37. ADOPT: Acronym Finder [home, info]
38. adopt: Idioms [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (adopt) ▸ verb:  take up and practice as one's own ▸ verb:  choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans ▸ verb:  take into one's family ("They adopted two children from Nicaragua") ▸ verb:  take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities ▸ verb:  take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect ("He adopted an air of superiority") ▸ verb:  take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own ("They adopted the Jewish faith") ▸ verb:  put into dramatic form ("Adopt a book for a screenplay") ▸ Also see adopts ▸ Words similar to adopt ▸ Usage examples for adopt ▸ Idioms related to adopt (New!) ▸ Words that often appear near adopt ▸ Rhymes of adopt ▸ Invented words related to adopt