Word Meanings - ADOPTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.

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• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• ADOPT
  1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve;
• CITIZENSHIP
  The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• ADOPTER
  A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• CITIZEN
  1. One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises. That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a
• ADOPTED
  Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.
• ADOPTIONIST
  One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
• COUNTRYMAN
  1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
• CITIZENESS
  A female citizen.
• COUNTRYWOMAN
  A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.
• COUNTRY-BASE
  See BASE
• ADOPTION
  1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries,
• ADOPTABLE
  Capable of being adopted.
• COUNTRY COUSIN
  A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.
• TAKEN
  p. p. of Take.
• COUNTRY
  The rock through which a vein runs. Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion. -- To put, or throw, one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury. (more info) contrata, fr. L. contra over against,
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• OUTTAKEN
  or prep. Excepted; save. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• UPCOUNTRY
  In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.
• INTERCITIZENSHIP
  The mutual right to civic privileges, in the different States. Bancroft.
• READOPT
  To adopt again. Young.