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adoption vs legal proceeding

legal proceeding vs adoption

adoption and legal proceeding both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
adoption Yes No No No
legal proceeding Yes No No No
As nouns, legal proceeding is a hypernym of adoption; that is, legal proceeding is a word with a broader meaning than adoption:
  • adoption: a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
  • legal proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
Other hypernyms of adoption include proceeding, proceedings.
adoption (noun) legal proceeding (noun)
the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
Difference between adoption and legal proceeding

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