adoptとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdɑpt/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /əˈdɒpt/

動詞

adopt (三人称単数 現在形 adopts, 現在分詞 adopting, 過去形および過去分詞形 adopted)

2. (transitive) To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.)
   1. (transitive) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

      A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.

   2. (transitive) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.

      We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.

   4. (transitive) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.

      This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.

      • 2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 49:

        Sixteen years ago, the station entered into a new chapter when it was adopted by the Friends of Chirk Station (FoCS) volunteer group, under the Arriva Trains Wales Station Adopters programme.

3. (transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.

   He adopted a new look in order to fit in with his new workmates.

   • 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.

4. (transitive) To select and take or approve.

   to adopt the view or policy of another

   These resolutions were adopted.

   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article XIV, Section 71, p. 156,^[2]

     Every society should adopt an order of business adapted to its special wants.

5. (transitive, informal, humorous, chess) to win ten consecutive games against an opponent

使用する際の注意点

In the sense of taking a child into one's family, Modern English makes a distinction between fostering (which is implied to be temporary または informal) and adopting (which is permanent かつ makes the child legally recognized as part of the family). In older usage the two terms were more interchangeable.

関連する語

• adoptee
• adoption
• adoptive
• adoptive father
• adoptive mother
• adopt out