adoptee
Plural: adoptees
Noun
- A person who has been legally adopted.
- someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
- An adopted son or daughter.
- A person who was adopted as a child.
- Synonym of adopter.
Examples
- An adult Chinese female adoptee has found her biological parents.
- That questionable word, a new adoptee to the dictionary, won him the game.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from French adoptée, feminine past participle of adopter meaning "to adopt", equivalent to adopt + -ee.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
adoptee: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordadoptee: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
adoptee: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
adoptee: valid Words With Friends Word