different between foster vs nursery

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)

1. Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.

   foster parents

2. Receiving such care.

   a foster child

3. Related by such care.

   We are a foster family.

Translations

Noun

foster (countable and uncountable, plural fosters)

1. (countable, informal) A foster parent.

   Some fosters end up adopting.

2. (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.

Verb

foster (third-person singular simple present fosters, present participle fostering, simple past and past participle fostered)

1. (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
2. (transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
3. (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
4. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. (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

1. fostering, nourishing, rearing, feeding
2. 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

1. fetus

Declension

Related terms

• fosterbror
• fosterfördrivning
• fosterhem
• fostersyster
• fostra

English

Etymology

From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin n?tr?cia (“wet nurse”), from Latin n?tr?cius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from n?tri? (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh?- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse +? -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??s??i/, /?n??s?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?s??i/, /?n?s?i/
• Hyphenation: nurs?e?ry

Noun

nursery (countable and uncountable, plural nurseries)

1. (countable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
   1. (by extension) Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.
   2. A place where the pre-school children of working parents are supervised during the day; a crèche, a daycare centre.
   3. A nursery school (“a school where pre-school children learn and play at the same time”).
   4. (Philippines) The first year of pre-school.
2. (countable, also figuratively) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
   1. (agriculture, zoology) A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).
   2. (horticulture) A place where young shrubs, trees, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting, or (more generally) made available for public sale, a garden centre; also (obsolete) a plantation of young trees.
   3. (sports) A club or team for developing the skills of young players.
3. (countable) Something which educates and nurtures.
4. (countable, billiards) Short for nursery cannon (“a carom shot involving balls that are very close together”).
5. (countable, obsolete, rare) Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
6. (uncountable, obsolete) The act of nursing or rearing.

Derived terms

Related terms

• nurse

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• nursery (room) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nursery habitat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nursery school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• plant nursery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nursery (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English nursery.

Noun

nursery f (invariable)

1. nursery (place for the care of children)