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FOSTERAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fosterage mean?
• FOSTERAGE (noun)
The noun FOSTERAGE has 2 senses:
1. encouragement; aiding the development of something
2. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
Familiarity information: FOSTERAGE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Encouragement; aiding the development of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
fosterage; fostering
Hypernyms ("fosterage" is a kind of...):
encouragement (the expression of approval and support)
Derivation:
foster (promote the growth of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
breeding; bringing up; fosterage; fostering; nurture; raising; rearing; upbringing
Context example:
they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
Hypernyms ("fosterage" is a kind of...):
acculturation; enculturation; socialisation; socialization (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)
Derivation:
foster (help develop, help grow)
Context examples
A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his services.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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