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    fos·ter
    [ˈfôstər, ˈfästər]
    verb
    foster (verb) · fosters (third person present) · fostered (past tense) · fostered (past participle) · fostering (present participle)
    1. encourage or promote the development of (something, typically something regarded as good):
      "the teacher's task is to foster learning"
      • develop (a feeling or idea) in oneself:
        "appropriate praise helps a child foster a sense of self-worth"
    2. bring up (a child that is not one's own by birth):
      "a person who would foster Holly was found"
    adjective
    foster (adjective)
    1. denoting someone that has a specified family connection through fostering rather than birth:
      "foster parent" · "foster child"
      • involving or concerned with fostering a child:
        "foster care" · "foster home"
    Origin
    Old English fōstrian ‘feed, nourish’, from fōster ‘food, nourishment’, of Germanic origin; related to food. The sense ‘bring up another's (originally also one's own) child’ dates from Middle English. See also foster-.
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