Fostername

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  An English surname originating as an occupation, variant of Forster.

  • The Mets got that four-run cushion in the seventh when George Foster stepped in as a pinch-hitter and hit a two-run homer for the 5-1 final.
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  A male given name transferred from the surname.

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  A placename

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  A placename

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  A placename

fosteradj詞源 1/ˈfɒstə/

• 1

  Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.

  • foster parents
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  Receiving such care.

  • a foster child
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  Related by such care.

  • We are a foster family.

fosternoun詞源 1/ˈfɒstə/

• 1

  informalA foster parent.

  • Some fosters end up adopting.
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  The care given to another; guardianship.

fosterverb詞源 1/ˈfɒstə/

• 1

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

  • Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.
• 2

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

  • Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
  • ⁠A flower beat with rain and wind, Which once she foster’d up with care
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  To nurse or cherish something.

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  obsoleteTo be nurtured or trained up together.

  • There Florimell, in her first ages flowre, And passing beautie did eftsoones reveale, Was fostered by those Graces

fosternoun詞源 2/ˈfɒstə/

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  obsoleteA forester.

  • A griesly Foster forth did rush.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Foster County