Foster
['fɒstə] or ['fɔstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864).
(verb.) help develop, help grow; 'nurture his talents'.
(verb.) bring up under fosterage; of children.
(verb.) promote the growth of; 'Foster our children's well-being and education'.
(adj.) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; 'foster parent'; 'foster child'; 'foster home'; 'surrogate father' .
Typist: Vilma--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.
(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.
(n.) A forester.
(n.) One who, or that which, fosters.
Editor: Olivia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Nurse, nourish, feed, support, sustain, bring up, rear up.[2]. Cherish, encourage, favor, promote, stimulate, forward, further, advance, help on, help forward.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CHERISH]
Typist: Nadine
Definition
n. (Spens.) a forester.
v.t. to bring up or nurse: to encourage.—ns. Fos′terāge the act of fostering or nursing; Fos′ter-broth′er a male child fostered or brought up with another of different parents; Fos′ter-child a child nursed or brought up by one who is not its parent; Fos′ter-daugh′ter; Fos′terer; Fos′ter-fa′ther one who brings up a child in place of its father; Fos′terling a foster-child; Fos′ter-moth′er one who suckles a child not her own; Fos′ter-nurse (Shak.) a nurse; Fos′ter-par′ent one who rears a child in the place of its parent; Fos′ter-sis′ter one brought up as a sister by the same parents but not a sister by birth; Fos′ter-son one brought up as a son though not a son by birth.
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Examples
- Their maintainers and foster-fathers. Plato. The Republic.
- Foster now relieved Burnside. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Charleston was evacuated on the 18th of February, and Foster garrisoned the place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He is suffered to reclaim his own, and so to foster and aid that it shall not perish hopeless. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- GRANT: General Foster has asked to be relieved from his command on account of disability from old wounds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- EGYPT, 25 00 B.C. Medicine, which is almost certain to develop in the early history of a people in response to their urgent needs, has been justly called the foster-mother of many sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Foster was then commanding the Department of the Ohio. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is not surprising that so many political inventions have been made within these movements, fostered by them, and brought to a general public notice through their efforts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As we have earlier noted, this notion was fostered by the new interest in education as method of social reform. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Their acquisition is fostered of course by conscious intent, but self-deception is very easy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The therns fear the awful denizens of this cruel and hopeless world that they have fostered and allowed to grow beneath their feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But the Germans could never hold Italy permanently, because they could not stand the malaria that the ruined, neglected, undrained country fostered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She covered her with noiseless kisses; she murmured love over her, like a cushat fostering its young. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No art can make it: it must spring Where elements are fostering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Part icular attention was paid to the trades, the mechanic arts, and the fostering of inventions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I see the difficulty, I replied; yet the fostering of such a belief will make them care more for the city and for one another. Plato. The Republic.
- But the plant needs fostering, and I, the gardener, alas! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There is something in the air of this clime which fosters life kindly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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