foster home

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English

Alternative forms

foster-home, fosterhome

Etymology

From foster +‎ home.

Noun

foster home (plural foster homes)

  1. A household in which a child or animal is raised by someone other than their natural or adoptive parent or owner (respectively), especially, in the case of a child, when that caregiver is otherwise unrelated to the child.
    • 2003, Marilyn Cochran Mosley, Dachshund Tails Rescued and Other Tales:
      The group placed him in a foster home with a woman and two little girls, then advertised in the local paper.
    • 2007, Geraldine M Humphrey, David G Zimpfer, Counselling for Grief and Bereavement:
      Pete's foster home placements were never successful.
    • 2014, Ernest Hebert, The Dogs of March:
      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.

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