Phrase Hound found 4 phrases and 13 compound words that contain adoption. The most common are listed below. Open adoption in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 4
- closed adoptionAn adoption where the identity of the biological parents is kept as a secret from the child and their adoptive parents.
- open adoptionAn adoption in which the biological mother/biological parents and the adoptive family know each other's identities, and choose to remain in contact after the adoption process is finalized.
- adoption nameThe legal name, or names that a child receives following the legal process of adoption, which typically includes their adoptive parents' surname.
- adoption namesplural of adoption name: The legal name, or names that a child receives following the legal process of adoption, which typically includes their adoptive parents' surname.
Compound words 13
- coadoptionjoint adoption
- readoptionBeing adopted back into a family or group
- adoptionalOf or relating to adoption.
- antiadoptionOpposing adoption.
- nonadoptionThe failure or refusal to adopt
- postadoptionAfter adoption.
- preadoptionBefore adoption.
- proadoptionIn favour of adoption.
- unadoptionThe process of unadopting.
- adoptionismA form of Christianity which maintains that Jesus is divine only in the sense that God the Father adopted him, either at Jesus' birth, or at his death, as opposed to the orthodox understanding of the nature of the Trinity.