Foster

Adjective

 * 1) Providing parental care to unrelated children.
 * 2) receiving such care
 * 3) Related by such care

Noun

 * 1)  A forester
 * 2)  The care given to another; guardianship

Verb

 * 1)  To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
 * 2)  To cultivate and grow something.
 * Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
 * 1)  To nurse or cherish something.

Adverbs for Foster
cunningly; gradually; effectually; deliberately; diligently; cordially; subtly; diabolically; treacherously; philosophically.

Synonyms for Foster
favor, gratify, indulge, harbor, tend, nourish, nurse, encourage, cherish, promote, aid, please, humor, comfort, fondle, support.

Antonyms for Foster
disregard, scorn, spurn, ignore, neglect, omit, overlook, shun, slight, leave, cast off, reject, disdain, abandon, discourage, hinder.

Thesaurus
abet, accommodate, acculturate, actuate, advance, affiliated, agnate, aid, aid and abet, akin, aliment, allied, ameliorate, amend, animate, apprentice, ask for, assist, attend to, avuncular, baby-sit, back, bear, better, boost, bosom, break, break in, breast-feed, breed, bring forward, bring up, care for, champion, chaperon, cherish, civilize, cling to, clip, closely related, coddle, cognate, collateral, compel, condition, congeneric, consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, conserve, contribute to, cosset, countenance, cradle, cultivate, develop, discipline, distantly related, drill, dry-nurse, edify, educate, elevate, embosom, embrace, emend, enate, encourage, energize, enhance, enlighten, enrich, entertain, exercise, fatten, fatten up, favor, feed, fetch up, fit, fondle, force, force-feed, form, forward, further, galvanize, german, germane, give encouragement, go straight, groom, harbor, hasten, have, have and hold, help, hold, hold on to, house, house-train, housebreak, hug, impel, improve, improve upon, invite, keep, keep in countenance, keep watch over, kindred, lactate, lard, lavish care on, lick into shape, lift, lodge, look after, look out for, look to, maintain, make an improvement, matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous, matronize, meliorate, mend, mind, minister to, mother, motivate, move, move to action, nourish, novercal, nurse, nurture, nutrify, oblige, of the blood, pamper, patrilateral, patrilineal, patroclinous, patronize, practice, prepare, preserve, promote, propel, protege, provide for, put in tune, put to school, raise, ready, rear, refine upon, reform, rehearse, related, ride herd on, see after, see to, send to school, serve, set in motion, shelter, shepherd, sib, sibling, socialize, spark, spoon-feed, stimulate, straighten out, stuff, succor, suckle, support, sustain, take care of, take charge of, take in hand, tend, train, transfigure, transform, treasure, treasure up, upgrade, uphold, uplift, uterine, watch, watch out for, watch over, wet-nurse

Etymology
fostor:, from.

Adjective

 * Finnish: kasvatus-, kasvatti-
 * French:
 * German: Pflege-
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: אימוץ
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * German: Pflege-
 * Hungarian: nevelt


 * Spanish: ,


 * : adoptif

Verb

 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: in Pflege geben


 * Greek:
 * Kurdish: xwedî kirin, mezin kirin
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Kurdish: xwedî kirin, mezin kirin
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Kurdish: xwedî kirin, mezin kirin
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * : promoure
 * : promouvoir, stimuler, elever


 * : promover, incentivar
 * : criar, desenvolver

Derived terms

 * fosterable
 * fosterage
 * foster-child, foster child
 * fosterer


 * foster home
 * fosterhood
 * fostering
 * fosterment
 * foster parent

Anagrams

 * fetors
 * forest
 * fortes
 * softer

Etymology
From fóstr:

Noun

 * 1) fetus (fetus)

Noun

 * 1) a fetus

Related terms

 * fosterbror
 * fosterfördrivning
 * fosterhem
 * fostersyster
 * fostra