Foster

/ˈfɒs.tə/ · adjective

Meaning

Providing parental care to children not related to oneself..

Definitions by Sense

1. Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
2. Receiving such care.
3. Related by such care.
4. (countable, informal) A foster parent.
5. (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
6. (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
7. (transitive) To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
8. (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.

Example Sentences

foster parents

a foster child

We are a foster family.

Some fosters end up adopting.

Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.

Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.

⁠A flower beat with rain and wind, Which once she foster’d up with care

And Time, which is the hound of Sish, devoured all things; and Sish sent up the ivy and fostered weeds, and dust fell from the hand of Sish and covered stately things.

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Word Forms

• fosters
• fostering
• fostered

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