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adoptive parents

adoptive parents is the plural of adoptive parent.

Meaning of adoptive parent

Noun

adoptive parent (plural adoptive parents)

  1. A person who adopts a child and brings it up as their own.

Questions about adoptive parents

What is adoptive parents the plural of?
Adoptive parents is the plural of adoptive parent.

Words near adoptive parents in the dictionary

  1. adoptive father
  2. adoptive fathers
  3. adoptive mother
  4. adoptive mothers
  5. adoptive parent
  6. adoptive parents
  7. adoptive sibling
  8. adoptive siblings
  9. adoptively
  10. adoptor
  11. adoptors

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