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Synonyms for foster
ˈfɔ stər, ˈfɒs tərfos·ter

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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fosterverb

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

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How to use foster in a sentence?

  1. Wagner Said:

    It might be they're going to help make cookies, help get gifts ready from Santa for younger siblings, do some volunteer work, whatever it is, think about, if we're giving up one (tradition), how do we get others going that foster the same feeling?

  2. Lenore Skenazy:

    Unless there is real evidence of abuse, a simple decision like a parent leaving their kid in the car while they run into a store doesn’t give a concerned citizen the right to start legal proceedings against a family, often the thinking is, it’s better to place a child in foster care than allow her parent to let her sleep in a car.

  3. Bill Richardson:

    Numerous universities and colleges have issued public statements supporting, and in some cases mandating, a criticalrace theory approach to the curriculum, usually usingcode words such as 'antiracism' or ‘equity,’ the proposed U. Nebraska Regents Resolution stands apart in that it gives an honest account of the downside of CRT in practice, which too often results in a narrowing of campus viewpoints.The resolution does not ‘ban’ CRT from the curriculum, to the contrary, it opposes‘imposition’ of CRT, and in so doing seeks to foster an open campus intellectual environment.

  4. Andrew Wilkie:

    My focus now turns to doing what I can to help settle the situation down and foster stable government.

  5. Julie Castle:

    About 40 % of all of the shelter population in the country is in foster home right now, and that represents a current reality of about 60 to 90,000 animals, which is huge.


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