foster
See also: Foster
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From Middle English foster, from Old English fōstor (“food, sustenance”), from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą (“nourishment, food”). Cognate with Middle Dutch voester (“nursemaid”), Middle Low German vôster (“food”), Old Norse fóstr (“nurturing, education, alimony, child support”), Danish foster (“fetus”), Swedish foster (“fetus”).
Adjective
foster (not comparable)
- 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.
Translations
receiving such care
Noun
foster (countable and uncountable, plural fosters)
- (countable, informal) A foster parent.
- Some fosters end up adopting.
- (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
Verb
foster (third-person singular simple present fosters, present participle fostering, simple past and past participle fostered)
- (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
- c. 1588–1593, [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: As It was Plaide by the Right Honourable the Earle of Darbie, Earle of Pembrooke, and Earle of Sussex Their Seruants (the First Quarto), London: Printed by Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne, published 1594, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.
- (transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
- Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
- 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ‘Sacha Baron Cohen’s vital, venomous action movie’”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
- Grimsby doesn't ever wound quite as devastatingly as Borat or Brüno, but it's a vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters.
- (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
Antonyms
- (cultivate and grow): hinder
Derived terms
Translations
to cultivate and grow something
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to nurse or cherish something
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Etymology 2
Noun
foster (plural fosters)
- (obsolete) A forester.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse fóstr (“rear, raise”)
Noun
foster n (singular definite fostret or fosteret, plural indefinite fostre)
Inflection
Declension of foster
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
foster n (definite singular fosteret or fostret, indefinite plural foster or fostre, definite plural fostra or fostrene)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “foster” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
foster n (definite singular fosteret, indefinite plural foster, definite plural fostera)
Related terms
References
- “foster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fóstr (“rear, raise”)
Pronunciation
Noun
foster n
Declension
| Declension of foster | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | foster | fostret | foster | fostren |
| Genitive | fosters | fostrets | fosters | fostrens |
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