Synonyms for foster
ˈfɔ stər, ˈfɒs tərfos·ter

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1. foster

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, value

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1. Foster, Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Fosteradjective

   United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

   Antonyms:
   biological

2. foster, surrogateverb

   providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties

   "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father"

   Synonyms:
   surrogate

   Antonyms:
   biological

3. foster, furtherverb

   promote the growth of

   "Foster our children's well-being and education"

   Synonyms:
   encourage, promote, boost, advance, nurture, further

   Antonyms:
   biological

4. fosterverb

   bring up under fosterage; of children

   Synonyms:
   nurture, further

   Antonyms:
   biological

5. foster, nurtureverb

   help develop, help grow

   "nurture his talents"

   Synonyms:
   bring up, nurture, rear, sustain, raise, nourish, parent, further

   Antonyms:
   biological

Matched Categories

1. • Encourage
   • Promote
   • Rear

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1. fosterverb

   Synonyms:
   nurse, nourish, feed, support, sustain, bring up, rear up

2. fosterverb

   Synonyms:
   cherish, encourage, favor, promote, stimulate, forward, further, advance, help on, help forward

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1. fosterverb

   Synonyms:
   nourish, nurse, support, promote, encourage, advance

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1. List of paraphrases for "foster":

   promote, encourage, adoptive, promoting, stimulate, fostering, encouraging, facilitate, host, promotion, enhance, reception, nurture, boost, hospitality, saves, cultivate, favour, build, encouraged, strengthen, stimulating, advance, homes

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1. Zhang Baohui:

   We can see their (PLA) posture is starting to change and they moving to a new role, in part, we can see them attempting to foster a greater sense of nationality in Hong Kong.

2. Kevin Brady:

   The foster care system at its best is a really tough system. It's really hard on these young kids.

3. AiR:

   If only people realized that their God was no different from the God of other religions, it would foster peace, acceptance and love in the world..

4. William Cullen Bryant:

   Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

5. Karen Thompson:

   They didn’t want to go home, back to the other foster home.