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foster child
[ faw-ster chahyld, fos-ter ]
noun
- a child raised by someone who is not their biological or adoptive parent.
- a needy child, such as one living in an impoverished country, supported or aided by contribution to a specific charity.
foster child
noun
- a child looked after temporarily or brought up by people other than its natural or adoptive parents
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Word History and Origins
Origin of foster child1
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Example Sentences
Clusters, filaments, and voids make up the large-scale structure of the Universe, foster-child of gravity and slow time.
“The BND is a foster child of the USA,” historian Josef Foschepoth told the popular German news program Tagesschau.
“It takes a very special kind of person, and nerve, to take on a foster child,” he says.
He will never again have to live with the Barahonas, who took him in as a foster child in 2004 and adopted him in 2009.
The foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.
She will thee bereave of almost every joy, the fair-faced foster-child of Heimir.
Villain as he was, and stained with the blood of her foster-child, her heart warmed toward him—the mother was the mother still!
The adopted country of each of these Italians gave more or less of its own impress to its foster child.
Kiev was at that time the foster-child of Constantinople and the Eastern empire.
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