foster🔊

Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.

Receiving such care.

Related by such care.

(informal) A foster parent.

The care given to another; guardianship.

To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.

To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.

To nurse or cherish something.

(obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.

(obsolete) A forester.