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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

Words nearby foster child

fossorial, fossula, foster, foster brother, foster care, foster child, foster city, foster daughter, foster father, foster frame, foster home

Example sentences from the Web for 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 |DAILY BEAST
On the 18th my foster-child and I expect to leave my little home at Willow Bend, where we have lived since her father's death.

A Speckled Bird |Augusta J. Evans Wilson
A nurse was once captured, and ordered to reveal the hiding-place of her foster-child, now her mistress, or suffer death.

The Birth of the Nation |Mrs. Roger A. Pryor
It is enough for one college that for a year Cromwell was her foster-child.

The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: |Thomas W. Silloway

You are Agatha Shaw's only child, therefore to me a foster-child.

The Stolen Singer |Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
Villain as he was, and stained with the blood of her foster-child, her heart warmed toward him—the mother was the mother still!

Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 |Various

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