Adopt vs Birthmother - What's the difference?
adopt | birthmother |
(with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
(with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
(with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
(with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.(rfex)
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To select and take or approve.
The biological mother of an adopted child.
* {{quote-news, year=1989, date=June 16, author=Adoptive mother and father, title=Top-Notch Agency, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The Agency educated us on the adoption process and gave us the opportunity to meet with other adoptive parents and also prospective birthmothers . }}
As a verb adopt
is (with relationship specified) to take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.As a noun birthmother is
the biological mother of an adopted child.adopt
English
Verb
(en verb)- A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
- This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
- to adopt the view or policy of another
- These resolutions were adopted .
birthmother
English
Noun
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