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What does foster mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word foster? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Providing parental care to unrelated children.
  2. Receiving such care.
  3. Related by such care.
Noun
  1. (countable, obsolete) A forester
  2. (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship
Verb
  1. (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
  2. (transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
  3. (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
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