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— English words —

• foster adj. Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
• foster adj. Receiving such care.
• foster adj. Related by such care.
• foster n. (Countable, informal) A foster parent.
• foster n. (Uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
• foster v. (Transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
• foster v. (Transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
• foster v. (Transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
• foster v. (Intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
• foster n. (Obsolete) A forester.
• Foster prop.n. An English surname originating as an occupation, variant of Forster.
• Foster prop.n. A male given name transferred from the surname.
• Foster prop.n. A placename.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Danish - Swedish
  • foster n. Fetus.
• Middle english
  • foster n. A child; one of one’s progeny.
  • foster n. (Chiefly Early ME) Food or other care.
  • foster n. (Rare) A foster child or adopted child.
  • foster n. (Rare) A foster parent or adoptee.
  • foster n. Alternative form of forester.
  • foster v. Alternative form of fostren.
• Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
  • foster n. (Biology) a fetus or foetus.
• Old english
  • foster n. Alternative form of fōstor.

— English word, defined in German —

• foster V. Nähren, pflegen, aufziehen.

— English words, defined in French —

• foster v. Alimenter, nourrir.
• foster v. Encourager, promouvoir, stimuler, entraîner.
• foster adj. Adoptif.
• foster n. (Désuet) (Dénombrable) Forestier.
• foster n. (Indénombrable) Tutelle, adoption ; garde donnée à un autre.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• foster v. Fomentar, promover.
• foster v. Adoptar.
• foster adj. Adoptivo.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• foster v. Alimentar.
• foster v. Favorecer, encorajar.
• foster v. Criar.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• foster agg. Adottivo.

69 English words from 22 English definitions

adopted adoptee Alternative and another Biology bring bring␣up care cherish Chiefly child children Countable cultivate Early English fetus foetus Food forester form Forster foster foster␣child foster␣parent from given given␣name given␣to grow guardianship informal Intransitive male name not nurse nurture nurtured obsolete occupation offspring one oneself originating other parent parental placename progeny provide Providing Rare Receiving related similar something such surname the together to␣oneself trained transferred Transitive Uncountable unrelated variant

6 English words from 13 foreign definitions

adoption donnée Encourager Forestier garde promover

23 foreign words from 13 foreign definitions

Adoptar Adoptif Adoptivo Adottivo Alimentar Alimenter aufziehen autre Criar Dénombrable Désuet encorajar entraîner Favorecer Fomentar Indénombrable Nähren nourrir pflegen promouvoir stimuler Tutelle un␣autre

40 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

fosters fostered fosterer fosterage fosterers fosteress fosterest fostereth fostering fosterable fosterages fostercare foster␣care Foster␣City foster␣fail foster␣home fosterhood fosterings fosterling fosterment fostership foster␣child fosteresses foster␣fails foster␣homes fosteringly fosterlings Foster's␣rule Foster␣County foster␣family foster␣father fostermother foster␣mother foster␣parent foster␣fathers fostermothers foster␣mothers foster␣parents foster␣children foster␣families

10 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

cofostered unfostered bufosteroid Cockfosters nonfostered bufosteroids cross-fosters cross-fostered crossfostering cross-fostering

2 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

cross-foster bananas␣Foster

18 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

fos FOs -fos fos- F/Os -fos- ost OST Oster Ste StE STE Ste. -ster -ster- ter TER ter-

8 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ETs ETS ret Ret. rets SOF Tso TSO

10 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

fetors forest Forest Forets forset fortes Fortes fortés froste softer

54 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Beforts befrost defrost efforts Fetrows florets foetors fœtors foister fooster footers for␣best forcest foreset foreste forests Forests foresty forgest forgets Forgets forlest forlets formest forpets Forrest Forseth Forseti forsets Forster Forsyte forties Forties fosters fothers fouters Fristoe frontes frosted frosten frostie Leforts lofters offrest refoots sefirot sent␣for softner soft␣roe Stoffer +4 words

38 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

estro estro- Feros fetor Foret Forst forte Forte forté forts frets froes frost Frost frote frots ofers OFers o-fers ofter orfes Oster refts resto Resto roset rotes sofer Sofer sorte Soter store terfs TERFs tores torse Tre-Fo trefs

20 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Boster coster Coster Doster faster FASTER fester Fester fister Fister footer FOSSer fouter fuster hoster Koster loster poster roster zoster

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

Oster

3 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

foister fooster Forster

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