encourage, nurture, promote; raise, act as an adoptive family; care for
entrusted to the care of, receiving parental care from someone unrelated by blood
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Foster Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Foster Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
(v. t.)
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
(v. t.)
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
(v. i.)
To be nourished or trained up together.
To be nourished or trained up together.
(n.)
One who, or that which, fosters.
One who, or that which, fosters.
(n.)
A forester.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA forester.
foster
\fos"ter\, n. a forester. [obs.]
foster
\fos"ter\ (?), n. one who, or that which, fosters.
foster
\fos"ter\, v. i. to be nourished or trained up together. [obs.]
foster
\fos"ter\, a. [as. fōster, fōstor, nourishment. see foster, v. t.] relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
Noun
1. United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)
(synonym) Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Foster
(hypernym) songwriter, songster, ballad maker
Verb
1. promote the growth of; "Foster our children's well-being and education"
(synonym) further
(hypernym) promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
(derivation) fostering, fosterage
2. bring up under fosterage; of children
(hypernym) rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent
3. help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents"
(synonym) nurture
(hypernym) encourage
(hyponym) patronize, patronise, patronage, support, keep going
(derivation) breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing
Adjective
1. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father"
(synonym) surrogate
(similar) adoptive
Foster Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
FOSTER WHEELER LTD
Exchange: NYSE
Holding company with subsidiaries which design, engineer and construct petroleum, chemical, petrochemical and alternative-fuels facilities and related infrastructure, including power generation and distribution facilities, production terminals, pollution control equipment and water treatment facilities and process plants for the
Exchange: NYSE
Holding company with subsidiaries which design, engineer and construct petroleum, chemical, petrochemical and alternative-fuels facilities and related infrastructure, including power generation and distribution facilities, production terminals, pollution control equipment and water treatment facilities and process plants for the
FOSTER WHEELER CORP
Exchange: NYSE
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Foster Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
Locality : FOSTER
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State: RHODE ISLAND
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State: WEST VIRGINIA
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State: KENTUCKY
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State: MISSOURI
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State: NEBRASKA
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State: OKLAHOMA
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State: OREGON
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Foster Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Foster may refer to:
Places
- Australia
- Foster, Victoria
- United States
- Foster, California (disambiguation)
- Foster, San Diego County, California
- Foster, Siskiyou County, California
- Foster, Indiana
- Foster, Missouri
- Foster, Nebraska
- Foster, Oregon
- Foster, Rhode Island
- Foster, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
- Foster, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town
- Foster, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Foster City, California
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