📖 Definitions of "Foster"
noun
- 1
A foster parent.
"Some fosters end up adopting."
- 2
The care given to another; guardianship.
verb
- 1
To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
- 2
To cultivate and grow something.
"Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts."
- 3
To nurse or cherish something.
- 4
To be nurtured or trained up together.
adjective
- 1
Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
"foster parents"
- 2
Receiving such care.
"a foster child"
- 3
Related by such care.
"We are a foster family."
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