adopted

8 3.1

A country, city, or home that someone chooses and treats as their own

adjective
/əˈdɑːptɪd/

: adoptado

After moving to a new country, he embraced the adopted traditions of his new home.

A rule in some sense is a like that is a transiently adopted belief system.

Examples

All of my family is from my adopted parents.
So what about birth parents and their adopted away kids?
This is Leo, adopted from the Dominican Republic.
Prince Ujen, Napoleon's adopted son, a hero of the Russian retreat.
So my adopted dad's ex-wife is my biological great aunt.
She was proud to introduce her adopted sister, who had come from a different country.
The community welcomed their adopted children as integral members of the family.

Synonyms

adoptive

vsadopted

4 4.6

Chosen or accepted as one's own, not by birth

is used mainly for places, countries, or cultures rather than people

Antonyms

native

549 1.5

From a particular place originally, often by birth or long history

biological

113 4.5

Related by blood rather than by adoption or marriage

How Adopted

standard

673 2.7

adopted

8 3.1

unadopted

1 6.4

Surface Forms

adopted positive

Morphology

adopted = adopt (transparent) = adopt + ed

A regular adjectival/past-participle formation from the verb 'adopt' meaning the state of having been adopted; learners who know 'adopt' will readily understand this form.

Etymology

The word adopted comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and opt- 'choose', the same root as opt and option. So an adopted country or city is one you 'choose' and take as your own home, even if you were not born there.