“fostered” is a form of
foster
/ˈfɒstə/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms fosters fostering fostered
- adjective Providing parental care to children not related to oneself. “foster parents”
- adjective Receiving such care. “a foster child”
- adjective Related by such care. “We are a foster family.”
- noun (countable, informal) A foster parent. “Some fosters end up adopting.”
- noun (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
- verb (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
- verb (transitive) To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing. “Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.”
- verb (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
- verb (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
- noun (obsolete) A forester.
- proper noun An English surname originating as an occupation, variant of Forster.
- proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
- proper noun A former settlement in San Diego County, California.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Warren County, Indiana.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky.
- proper noun A township and unincorporated community therein, in Big Stone County, Minnesota.
- proper noun A village in Bates County, Missouri; named for Ohio governor Charles Foster.
- proper noun A village in Pierce County, Nebraska; named for George Foster, original owner of town's site.
Synonyms
Stephen Foster Stephen Collins Foster further nurture surrogate
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English foster, from Old English fōstor (“food, sustenance”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą (“nourishment, food”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch voester (“nursemaid”), Middle Low German vôster (“food”), Old Norse fóstr (“nurturing, education, alimony, child support”), Danish foster (“fetus”), Swedish foster (“fetus”).
English surname, reduced from Forster; also from the noun foster.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.
- verb To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
- verb To be nourished or trained up together. [Obs.] Spenser.
- adjective 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. Foster babe, or child, an infant of child nursed by a woman not its mother, or bred by a man not its father.
Etymology [OE. fostren, fr. AS. foster, fostor, food, nourishment, fr. foda food. *75. See Food.]
Etymology [AS. foster, fostor, nourishment. See Foster, v. t.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “foster”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details