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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 childplay

  Familiarity information: FOSTER PARENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOSTER PARENT (noun)


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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