foster
foster is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
- transitive verb. To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
- intransitive verb. To be nourished or trained up together.
- transitive verb. Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
- noun. A forester.
- noun. One who, or that which, fosters.
- noun. United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)
- verb. help develop, help grow
"nurture his talents"
- verb. bring up under fosterage; of children
- verb. promote the growth of
"Foster our children's well-being and education"
- adjective. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
"foster parent"
"foster child"
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Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in foster:
fetors, forest, forset, fortes, fstore, softer
Common word forms
fosters, fostered, fosterer, fostering, fosterable
Words from these letters
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