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Foster

noun

United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864). Synonyms: Stephen Collins Foster, Stephen Foster.

adjective

Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties. Synonym: surrogate. "Foster child" , "Foster home" , "Surrogate father"

verb

(past & past part. fostered, pres. part. fostering)

Promote the growth of. Synonym: further.

Bring up under fosterage; of children.

Help develop, help grow. Synonym: nurture.

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"Foster" Quotes from Famous Books

... parents adored me, and I was good to them. They were so kind to me that I was almost fond of them. Why not? It seemed to me as politic to be fond of them as of anyone else. I did what I pleased, but I did not always let them know it; so I pleased them. The wise child will take care to foster the ignorance of its parents. My people were pretty well off, and I was their only child; but my chief chances of future pleasure in life were centred in my grandmother, my mother's mother. She was immensely rich, ...

— The Return Of The Soul - 1896 • Robert S. Hichens

... or gone down through the garden-path there, without thinking of the times when he and I walked there together? There needs no fostering for such memories as those. They are weeds which will grow rank and strong though nothing be done to foster them. There is the earth and the rain, and that is enough for them. You cannot kill them if you would, and they certainly will not die because you are careful not to ...

— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope

... questions placed between the slates. At a public seance in Santa Cruz, following a lecture, folded ballots were sent up by the audience and the answers were sometimes written on closed slates and sometimes by the doctor's hands. Dr. S. has also succeeded in repeating the famous performance of Charles Foster—the names of spirits appearing on his arm in ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 - Volume 1, Number 8 • Various

... completely overflowed a garden wall, smothering everything upon it. A kind of Jack's beanstalk, and every morning starred with turquoise blue trumpet mouths of ravishing beauty, which were dead at noon. The poor thing was constrained to be a hierodule, gave no seed. Nature is the prodigal's foster-mother. ...

— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett

... from the Chinese, and it is probably from them that the mariners of Barcelona first introduced its use into Europe. The first mention of it is given in a treatise on Natural History by Alexander Neckam, foster-brother of Richard, Coeur de Lion. Another reference, in a satirical poem of the troubadour, Guyot of Provence (1190), states that mariners can steer to the north star without seeing it, by following the direction of a needle floating in a straw in a basin of water, after ...

— The Story of Geographical Discovery - How the World Became Known • Joseph Jacobs

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