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adoptee

/əˌdɒpˈtiː/US/əˌdɑpˈti/

adoptee noun: an adopted son or daughter.

Noun

adoptee (plural adoptees)

  1. An adopted son or daughter.
  2. A person who was adopted as a child.
    • An adult Chinese female adoptee has found her biological parents.
  3. Synonym of adopter.
    Synonyms:
    adopter

adoptee meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

adoptee in Tamil

தத்தெடுக்கப்பட்டவர்

adoptee in Indonesian

adopted son or daughter
anak angkat
person who was adopted as a child
anak angkat

Synonyms of adoptee

Forms of adoptee

pluraladoptees

Origin of adoptee

Learned borrowing from French adoptée, feminine past participle of adopter meaning "to adopt", equivalent to adopt + -ee.

Words formed from adoptee

Questions about adoptee

What does adoptee mean?
Adoptee means an adopted son or daughter.
What is adoptee in Tamil?
Adoptee in Tamil is தத்தெடுக்கப்பட்டவர். See Adoptee meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is adoptee?
Adoptee is a noun.
How do you pronounce adoptee?
Adoptee is pronounced /əˌdɒpˈtiː/.
What is the plural of adoptee?
The plural of adoptee is adoptees.

Words near adoptee in the dictionary

  1. adoptaversary
  2. adopted
  3. adopted out
  4. adoptedly
  5. adoptedst
  6. adoptee
  7. adoptees
  8. adopter
  9. adopters
  10. adoptest
  11. adopteth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: adoptee (page history and authors); adoptee (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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