Meaning

1 senses

  1. One who adopts

    a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child

Examples

1 sentences

  1. There are far more children in foster care than there are potential adopters.

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Translations

3 languages

Forms

plural: adopters
Singularadopter
Pluraladopters

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child:adoptive parent

Word family

3 related words
Relatedadopt
Derivedearly adopternonadopter

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
adolescenceadolescentadoptB1adoptionB2adoptiveadorableB1adoration
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