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Meanings of adoptive child in anglès

rus
приёмный сын
portuguès
filho adotivo
espanyol
hija adoptada
català
fill o filla adoptiva
f. adopted daughter

Person who has become the parents' child through the legal process of adoption.

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      fill o filla adoptiva
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      Examples for "adopted child"
      Examples for "adopted child"
      1
      I am going to adopt Agnes; I call her my adopted child.
      A Modern Tomboy: A Story for Girls
      2
      I was not their own daughter, he stated, but an adopted child.
      The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and S...
      3
      She was happy, very happy, always taken up with her adopted child.
      Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales
      4
      Brand take her dear adopted child to see some of the pictures?
      Sunrise
      5
      As an adopted child, Evanne knows she is one of the lucky ones.
      Independent.ie
      Usage of adoptive child in anglès
      1
      Diori is not biologically related to those she impacts-yetthey are still her adoptive children.
      Ebony
      2
      The film Philomena is encouraging parents and adoptive children to find each other, according to campaigners.
      BBC
      3
      Not only natural children are subject, as we said, to paternal power, but also adoptive children.
      The Institutes of Justinian
      4
      In respect of adoptive children we have introduced a distinction, which is explained in our constitution on adoptions.
      The Institutes of Justinian
      5
      Historically, Mella said, there has been a preference for giving adoptive children homes in nuclear families where the parents are husband and wife.
      Reuters
      6
      As news of the campaign spread, hundreds of adoptive children and mothers who suspected they had been fooled by doctors and nuns joined in.
      The Guardian
      7
      8 An adoptive child is in most respects in the same position, as regards the father, as a natural child born in lawful wedlock.
      The Institutes of Justinian