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FOSTER PARENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does foster parent mean?
• FOSTER PARENT (noun)
The noun FOSTER PARENT has 1 sense:
1. a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child
Familiarity information: FOSTER PARENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
foster-parent; foster parent
Hypernyms ("foster parent" is a kind of...):
defender; guardian; protector; shielder (a person who cares for persons or property)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foster parent"):
foster-father; foster father (a man who is a foster parent)
foster-mother; foster mother (a woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child)
Context examples
She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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