Definition of foster

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Foster (v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

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Foster :: Foster (v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius..
Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard..
Fosterling :: Fosterling (n.) A foster child.
Cultivate :: Cultivate (v. t.) To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like..
Lap :: Lap (n.) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury..
Foster :: Foster (n.) A forester.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention..
#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..
Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues..
Laissez Faire :: Laissez faire () Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government..
Fostering :: Fostering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foste.
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster..
Fosterment :: Fosterment (n.) Food; nourishment.
Fosterage :: Fosterage (n.) The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring..
Foster :: Foster (n.) One who, or that which, fosters..
Impasture :: Impasture (v. t.) To place in a pasture; to foster.
Fostered :: Fostered (imp. & p. p.) of Foste.
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