having been taken into a specific relationship; " an adopted child"

acquired as your own by free choice; " my adopted state"; " an adoptive country"

of Adopt

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.

Lose no time; go directly to Laupahoehoe, and tell Kaleihokuu that two chiefs desire to see his adopted son. – Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

How proud I should be of you now if you were really her adopted daughter. – The Time of Roses by L. T. Meade

The kind- hearted people were so touched by her distress and beauty that they adopted her as their own. – The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

I have adopted all your emendations, and thrown in lines and words, just a morning's business; but one does not write plays so. – The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

When her pet was brought home dead, the little rabbit's adopted mother wept bitterly. – Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin