What is the meaning of Adopt?

To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

  1. To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

    To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

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

    To contribute towards the upkeep of (a child or animal), in exchange for occasional stories, pictures, etc.

    To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.

    To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.

    To select and take or approve.

    To beat an opponent ten times in a row.

    first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of adopta

    Source: wiktionary.org