foster
Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
Adjective 3 meanings
Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
“foster parents”
Receiving such care.
“a foster child”
Related by such care.
“We are a foster family.”
Noun 2 meanings
A foster parent.
“Some fosters end up adopting.”
The care given to another; guardianship.
Verb 3 meanings
To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
“Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.”
To nurse or cherish something.
Etymology
From Middle English foster, from Old English fōstor (“food, sustenance”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą (“nourishment, food”).
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FOSTER at a glance
FOSTER has 6 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (F 4 + O 1 + S 1 + T 1 + E 1 + R 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,006 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with foster
All rhymes- AFTER8
- BETTER8
- WATER8
- LATER5
- MATTER8
- CENTER8
- CHARACTER16
- DAUGHTER13
- MINISTER10
- COMPUTER14
- LETTER6
- SISTER6
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