LekhoriLekhoriProviding 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.
A foster parent.
Some fosters end up adopting.
The care given to another; guardianship.
A forester.
To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
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.
To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
An English surname originating as an occupation, variant of Forster.
The Mets got that four-run cushion in the seventh when George Foster stepped in as a pinch-hitter and hit a two-run homer for the 5-1 final.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
From Middle English foster, from Old English fōstor (“food, sustenance”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą (“nourishment, food”). Cognate with Middle Dutch voester (“nursem...
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A griesly Foster forth did rush.
Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
To nurse or cherish something.
A placename