Definition of Adopted

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Definition of Adopted
	Adopted of Adopt Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. Related Definitions: Adopt, Adopted, Adoption, An, As, By, Citizen, Country, Of, One, Own, Son, Taken, Up, Word

Adopted Quotations

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Steven Wright

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
Gilda Radner

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
Robert Baden-Powell

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
Jeffrey Sachs

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James Baldwin

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Adopted Translations

adopted in Dutch is aangenomen, geadopteerd
adopted in German is adoptierte, nahm an, angenommen
adopted in Portuguese is adotado
adopted in Spanish is adoptivo

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