foster child

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noun

a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
a needy child, as one living in an impoverished country, supported or aided by contribution to a specific charity.

Origin of foster child

1150–1200; Middle English fostercild

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Related Words for foster child

care, keeping, safekeeping, protection, dependent, orphan, pensioner, charge, client, pupil, child, trust, minor, guardianship, godchild

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Contemporary Examples of foster child

Clusters, filaments, and voids make up the large-scale structure of the Universe, foster-child of gravity and slow time.
Laniakea: The Milky Way’s Place in the Heavens
Matthew R. Francis
September 7, 2014

Historical Examples of foster child

When the day was over, Alpheus called to him his foster-child.
The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
Various
To please Alciphron, your foster-child, you would make us all beggars.
Complete Short Works
Georg Ebers
Her heart misgave her; he was her foster-child—dear to her as her own.
Baron Bruno
Louisa Morgan
Then the pursuer overtook her foster-child, and pecked him savagely.
Peggy Raymond's Vacation
Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
You are Agatha Shaw's only child, therefore to me a foster-child.
The Stolen Singer
Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger

British Dictionary definitions for foster child

foster child

noun

a child looked after temporarily or brought up by people other than its natural or adoptive parents

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