English Explanatory Dictionary

foster home

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A household in which a child or animal is raised by someone other than their natural or adoptive parent or owner (respectively), especially, in the case of a child, when that caregiver is otherwise unrelated to the child.

Word forms

foster home foster homes foster-home fosterhome

Etymology

From foster + home.

Related words

foster care foster child foster family foster father foster mother foster parent
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on F Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary