adopteda‧dopt‧ed /əˈdɒptɪd $ əˈdɑːp-/ adjective 
Examples
his adopted son2your adopted country is one that you have chosen to live in permanently
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Collocations- The Browns have one adopted son.
- Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeated allegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.
- But Dan Crawley's adopted niece clearly shared Henry's faith in the equine world.
- Even Bush's adopted home state of Texas gave Clinton a five percent lead.
- He had been roaming New Orleans, his adopted city, for two days.
- If we believe this, I think it makes the challenge of bringing up adopted children an easier task.
- Robbie had never met any of Caro's adopted family.
- The couple split up after Farrow saw nude pictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, 21, taken by Allen.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an adopted child
1an adopted child has been legally made part of a family that he or she was not born into: (=legally made part of a family that he or she was not born into)· I didn’t find out that I was an adopted child until years later.
► your adopted country (=that you have chosen to live in permanently)· I felt proud of my adopted country, America.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► child· Britain's adopted children had come of age.· For adopted children that quest may include tracing their natural or birth parents.· This includes adopted children or children accepted into the family.· If we believe this, I think it makes the challenge of bringing up adopted children an easier task.· He comments: The adopted child can count upon help and friendship from a larger circle than the ordinary child.· Many women have permanently or temporarily adopted children from other families and are establishing community child-care facilities.· At adolescence, adopted children have the normal crop of teenage problems.· Consequently, they are roughly equivalent to the transracially adopted children.
► country· In spite of an inauspicious beginning, Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country.· Klein prided himself on being a loyal subject who had served his adopted country with honour.· It's a historical commonplace that this extraordinary cohort of Hitler's unwanted transformed their adopted country.· We know what Mary's adopted country thought.· And thus this odyssey began, encompassing almost 50 years in the strange new culture of her adopted country.· Many refugee servicemen were decorated and many gave their lives to their adopted country.· Though he's proud of his adopted country, he's angry that the Foreign Secretary has defended the raid.· He never played a game for his adopted country.
► daughter· In addition, one adopted son was knighted and an adopted daughter became another dame.· Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeated allegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.· Allen said he was still in love with Soon-Yi, Mia's 21-year-old adopted daughter.· The couple split up after Farrow saw nude pictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, 21, taken by Allen.· The film director said a threat was made after Mia discovered he was having an affair with her adopted daughter.· An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman.
► son· In addition, one adopted son was knighted and an adopted daughter became another dame.· Not only had David Anthony been her grandfather's name, but the name he had given his adopted son.· We are not abandoned waifs or orphans, but adopted sons and daughters in a growing family.· Because his adopted son was the father of Marie O'Donnell's baby?· When I raised the question with Richard he readily agreed to become my adopted son.
his adopted son2your adopted country is one that you have chosen to live in permanently