foster meaning
Meaning
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- Verb: foster fóstu(r)
- Promote the growth of
"Foster our children's well-being and education"
- further - Bring up under fosterage; of children
- Help develop, help grow
- nurture
- Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
"foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"
- surrogate
- United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)
- Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Foster
Derived forms: fostered, Fosters, fosters, fostering
See also: adoptive, fosterage, fostering
Type of: advance, ballad maker, boost, bring up, encourage, further, nurture, parent, promote, raise, rear, songster, songwriter
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- Promote the growth of
Examples
- The fosters petrified for two minutes.
- Too rigid parental control fosters rebellion of children.
- We should foster capital investment in areas needing development.
- To be sure, peter did not foster any social ties among the leaders.
- The lack of understanding fosters feelings of hatred between the two nations.
- To anger him, his wife had taken pains to foster his suspicion.
- Such conditions foster the growth of the world's most luxuriant vegetation.
- The blastocyst is then surgically introduced into the uterus of a foster mother.
- Morris intended to foster an art restoring the dignity of the craftsman.
- For instance, it may foster lateral growth in girth, instead of longitudinal growth.
Other Languages
- "foster" meaning in Chinese: n. 福斯特〔姓氏,男子名〕。 vt. 1.养育,抚育〔但并不在法律上认作继承人,与 adopt 有别〕。2.鼓励...
- "foster" meaning in Japanese: {形} : 里親{さとおや}の-------------------------------------------...
- "foster" meaning in Russian: 1) воспитывать (чужого ребенка) Ex: her child was fostered...
- "foster" meaning in French: v. encourager, développer, favoriser; prendre (un enfant...