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foster home en · NOUN

Etymology

From foster + home.

Meanings

1. A household in which a child is placed for foster care.
   • For a long time, as they shifted him from foster home to foster home, his records lost somewhere, he believed he was an orphan; but slowly it came to him that this was not true: he was a bastard. 2014, Ernest Hebert, The Dogs of March:
   • Pete's foster home placements were never successful. 2007, Geraldine M Humphrey, David G Zimpfer, Counselling for Grief and Bereavement:
2. A household that volunteers to care for a domestic animal it does not own, especially by raising it from infancy until it is old enough to be adopted by a permanent owner.
   • The group placed him in a foster home with a woman and two little girls, then advertised in the local paper. 2003, Marilyn Cochran Mosley, Dachshund Tails Rescued and Other Tales:

Forms

Relateds

foster care · foster parent · foster mother · foster family · foster father · foster child

Translations (14)

ga áras altrama (non-adoptive household caring for child) · es hogar de acogimiento (non-adoptive household caring for child) · sv fosterhem (non-adoptive household caring for child) · cmn 寄養家庭 /寄养家庭 (non-adoptive household caring for child) · es hogar de adopción temporánea (non-adoptive household caring for child) · sv familjehem (non-adoptive household caring for child) · fi sijaiskoti (non-adoptive household caring for child) · ko 위탁가정 (non-adoptive household caring for child) · es hogar adoptivo temporáneo (non-adoptive household caring for child) · id keluarga asuh (non-adoptive household caring for child) · es casa de acogida (non-adoptive household caring for child) · hu nevelőcsalád (non-adoptive household caring for child) · hu befogadó család (non-adoptive household caring for child) · ga baile altrama (non-adoptive household caring for child)