foster
1. promote the growth of (Freq. 13)
- Foster our children's well-being and education
• Syn:
further
• Derivationally related forms:
furtherance (for: further), fosterage, fostering
• Hypernyms:
promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. bring up under fosterage;
of children
• Hypernyms:
rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
3. help develop, help grow
- nurture his talents
• Syn:
nurture
• Derivationally related forms:
nurture (for: nurture), fosterage, fostering
• Hypernyms:
encourage
• Hyponyms:
patronize, patronise, patronage, support, keep going,
serve, serve well
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
- foster parent
- foster child
- foster home
- surrogate father
• Syn:
surrogate
• Similar to:
adoptive
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