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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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aid
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /e?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
- Homophone: aide
Etymology 1
From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adi?t?, adi?t?re (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.
Alternative forms
- aide
- ayde (obsolete)
Noun
aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)
- (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- An unconstitutional method of obtaining aid.
- “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- (countable) A helper; an assistant.
- It is not good that man should bee alone, let vs make vnto him an aide like to himselfe.
- (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
- (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
- (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
- (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
- (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuv? (“"assist"”, verb).
Verb
aid (third-person singular simple present aids, present participle aiding, simple past and past participle aided)
- (transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
- (climbing) To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
- 1979, American Alpine Journal (page 193)
- Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.
- 1979, American Alpine Journal (page 193)
Synonyms
- assist
- befriend
- bestand
- cooperate
- help
- promote
- relieve
- succor
- support
- sustain
- See also Thesaurus:help or Thesaurus:serve
Derived terms
- aidable
- aidance
- aider
- unaided
Related terms
- aidant
- aide-de-camp
Translations
Anagrams
- -iad, Adi, DIA, Dai, Dia, I'd-a, I'da, IAD, Ida, Ida., dai, dia-
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Arabic ??????? (???id).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??id/
Postposition
aid + dative
- related to, relating to, having to do with
- concerning, about
Related terms
- aidiyy?t
References
- “aid” in Obastan.com.
Bau
Noun
aid
- woman
Further reading
- Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *aita.
Noun
aid
- fence
Panim
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a??/
Noun
aid
- woman
Further reading
- Panim Talking Dictionary
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *aita.
Noun
aid
- fence
Inflection
Derived terms
- aidverai
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????, ????????, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
Võro
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *aita.
Noun
aid (genitive aia, partitive aida)
- garden
Inflection
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