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ADOPTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adoptee mean? 

ADOPTEE (noun)
  The noun ADOPTEE has 1 sense:

1. someone (such as a child) who has been adoptedplay

  Familiarity information: ADOPTEE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ADOPTEE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone (such as a child) who has been adopted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("adoptee" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

adopt (take into one's family)


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