Usually means: Provide care for someone temporarily.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Foster, foster: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. foster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Foster, foster: Vocabulary.com
  6. Foster, foster: Wordnik
  7. foster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Foster, foster: Wiktionary
  9. foster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. foster: Dictionary.com
  13. foster (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. foster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Foster (film), Foster (short story), Foster (surname), Foster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Foster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. foster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Foster: Rhymezone
  19. foster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. foster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FOSTER, Foster: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. foster: Free Dictionary
  23. foster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Foster, foster: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Foster: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. foster: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. foster: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Foster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. foster: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. FOSTER: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Foster (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. Foster: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
▸ adjective:  Receiving such care.
▸ adjective:  Related by such care.
▸ noun:  (countable, informal) A foster parent.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A forester.
▸ noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation, variant of Forster
▸ noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.
▸ noun:  A placename
▸ noun:  A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun:  A former settlement in San Diego County, California.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Warren County, Indiana.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky.
▸ noun:  A township and unincorporated community therein, in Big Stone County, Minnesota.
▸ noun:  A village in Bates County, Missouri; named for Ohio governor Charles Foster.
▸ noun:  A village in Pierce County, Nebraska; named for George Foster, original owner of town's site.
▸ noun:  A town in Garvin County, Oklahoma.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community partly in Sweet Home, Linn County, Oregon.
▸ noun:  A town in Providence County, Rhode Island; named for Rhode Island statesman Theodore Foster.
▸ noun:  A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Clear Creek, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
▸ noun:  A village in the town of Brome Lake, Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, southern Quebec, Canada.
▸ noun:  A town in South Gippsland Shire, south-east Victoria, Australia.
▸ noun:  Ellipsis of Foster County. [One of 53 counties in North Dakota, United States. County seat: Carrington.]

Similar:
adoptive, nurture, further, surrogate, promote, facilitate, cultivate, encourage, stimulate, institutionalize, more...

Opposite:
hinder, obstruct, suppress, inhibit, impede

Phrases:
foster care, foster parents, john foster, foster home, foster homes, more...

Adjectives:
late, old, young, poor, former, good, british, little, bacon, carey, american

Colors:
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Similar:
adoptive, nurture, further, surrogate, promote, facilitate, cultivate, encourage, stimulate, institutionalize, more...

Opposite:
hinder, obstruct, suppress, inhibit, impede

Phrases:
foster care, foster parents, john foster, foster home, foster homes, foster mother, foster children, foster family, foster child, foster parent, foster father, Stephen Foster, Foster City, william foster, more...

Adjectives:
late, old, young, poor, former, good, british, little, bacon, carey, american

Colors:
    sky blue,     forest green,     coral pink,     lavender,     teal,     peach,     mint green,     rose,     navy blue,     olive



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