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nouna child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent. a needy child, as one living in an impoverished country, supported or aided by contribution to a specific charity. Origin of foster child1150–1200; Middle English fostercild Words nearby foster childfossula, foster, fosterage, foster brother, foster care, foster child, Foster City, foster daughter, foster father, Foster frame, foster home Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for foster childClusters, filaments, and voids make up the large-scale structure of the Universe, foster-child of gravity and slow time. Laniakea: The Milky Way’s Place in the Heavens|Matthew R. Francis|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST On the 18th my foster-child and I expect to leave my little home at Willow Bend, where we have lived since her father's death. A Speckled Bird|Augusta J. Evans Wilson A nurse was once captured, and ordered to reveal the hiding-place of her foster-child, now her mistress, or suffer death. The Birth of the Nation|Mrs. Roger A. Pryor It is enough for one college that for a year Cromwell was her foster-child. The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland:|Thomas W. Silloway
You are Agatha Shaw's only child, therefore to me a foster-child. The Stolen Singer|Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger Villain as he was, and stained with the blood of her foster-child, her heart warmed toward him—the mother was the mother still! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848|Various
British Dictionary definitions for foster child
nouna child looked after temporarily or brought up by people other than its natural or adoptive parents Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to foster childcare, keeping, safekeeping, protection, dependent, orphan, pensioner, charge, client, pupil, child, trust, minor, guardianship, godchild, protégé, protégée |