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adoptive
English
Etymology
adopt +? -ive
Adjective
adoptive (not comparable)
- Related through adoption.
- Pertaining to adoption.
Antonyms
- (relation): biological, blood
Translations
French
Adjective
adoptive
- feminine singular of adoptif
Latin
Adjective
adopt?ve
- vocative masculine singular of adopt?vus
Swedish
Adjective
adoptive
- absolute definite natural masculine form of adoptiv.
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foster
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f?st?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?st?/
- (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /?f?st?/
- Rhymes: -?st?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English foster, from Old English f?stor (“food, sustenance”), from Proto-Germanic *f?str? (“nourishment, food”). Cognate with Middle Dutch voester (“nursemaid”), Middle Low German vôster (“food”), Old Norse fóstr (“nurturing, education, alimony, child support”), Danish foster (“fetus”), Swedish foster (“fetus”).
Adjective
foster (not comparable)
- Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
- foster parents
- Receiving such care.
- a foster child
- Related by such care.
- We are a foster family.
Translations
Noun
foster (countable and uncountable, plural fosters)
- (countable, informal) A foster parent.
- Some fosters end up adopting.
- (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
Verb
foster (third-person singular simple present fosters, present participle fostering, simple past and past participle fostered)
- (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
- (transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
- (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
Antonyms
- (cultivate and grow): hinder
Derived terms
Usage notes
Modern English makes a distinction between fostering (which is implied to be temporary or informal) and adopting (which is permanent and makes the child legally recognized as part of the family). In older usage the two terms were more interchangeable.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
foster (plural fosters)
- (obsolete) A forester.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
Anagrams
- Forest, Forets, Fortes, fetors, forest, forset, fortes, fortés, froste, softer
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse fóstr (“rear, raise”)
Noun
foster n (singular definite fostret or fosteret, plural indefinite fostre)
- fetus
Inflection
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse fóstr
Noun
foster n (definite singular fosteret or fostret, indefinite plural foster or fostre, definite plural fostra or fostrene)
- (biology) a fetus or foetus
Derived terms
- fostervann
Related terms
- embryo
References
- “foster” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fóstr
Noun
foster n (definite singular fosteret, indefinite plural foster, definite plural fostera)
- (biology) a fetus or foetus
Related terms
- embryo
References
- “foster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Alternative forms
- f?ster, f?stor, f?stur
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *f?str?, from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to protect”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fo?s.ter/
Noun
f?ster n
- fostering, nourishing, rearing, feeding
- food, nourishment, provisions
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: foster
- English: foster
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “f?ster”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fóstr (“rear, raise”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?st?r/
Noun
foster n
- fetus
Declension
Related terms
- fosterbror
- fosterfördrivning
- fosterhem
- fostersyster
- fostra
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