Foster

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  • transitive verb. To bring up; nurture: synonym: nurture.
  • transitive verb. To promote the growth and development of; cultivate: synonym: advance.
  • transitive verb. To nurse; cherish.
  • adjective. Providing parental care and nurture to children not related through legal or blood ties.
  • adjective. Receiving parental care and nurture from those not related to one through legal or blood ties.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A contracted form of forster, forester.
  • To feed; nourish; support; bring up.
  • To sustain by aid, care, or encouragement; give support to; cherish; promote: as, to foster the growth of tender plants; to foster an enterprise; to foster pride or genius.
  • Synonyms Harbor, etc. (see cherish); to indulge, favor, forward, advance, further, help on.
  • To be nourished or trained up together.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To be nourished or trained up together.
  • transitive verb. To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
  • transitive verb. To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote.
  • noun. A forester.
  • adjective. Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
  • adjective. an infant or child nursed or raised by a woman not its mother, or bred by a man not its father.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. one who is, or has been, nursed at the same breast, or brought up by the same nurse as another, but is not of the same parentage.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. one who takes the place of a mother; a nurse.
  • adjective. earth by which a plant is nourished, though not its native soil.
  • adjective. a man who takes the place of a father in caring for a child.
  • adjective. One's adopted country.
  • adjective. remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster child; also, the jointure of a wife.
  • adjective. a woman who takes a mother's place in the nurture and care of a child; a nurse.
  • adjective. a nurse; a nourisher.
  • adjective. a foster mother or foster father.
  • adjective. a male foster child.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Providing parental care to unrelated children.
  • adjective. receiving such care
  • adjective. Related by such care
  • noun. A forester
  • noun. The care given to another; guardianship
  • verb. To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
  • verb. To cultivate and grow something.
  • verb. To nurse or cherish something.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. promote the growth of
  • verb. bring up under fosterage; of children
  • noun. United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)
  • verb. help develop, help grow
  • adjective. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
  • Word Usage
    "One of the dogs now in foster is "Trey," a beautiful, 6 - or 7-year-old red pit bull who was likely used for breeding fighting dogs."
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