adopt
verb / noun
Meaning
- verbTo take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship. To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Example:
A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- nounClipping of adoptable.
- verbTo take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Example:
A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #520 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 56% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None