adoptive parent

1. 1.

   a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child

   Synonymsadopter

   Broaderparent

Questions about adoptive parent

What does adoptive parent mean?

adoptive parent means "a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child".

What is another word for adoptive parent?

Close synonyms include adopter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adoptive parent a common word?

adoptive parent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.