foster

Adjective

• providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
  • foster parent
    
  • foster child
    
  • foster home
    
  • surrogate father
    

Verb

• help develop, help grow
  • nurture his talents
    

• bring up under fosterage; of children

• promote the growth of
  • Foster our children's well-being and education
    

Noun

• United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  surrogate , nurture , further , Foster , Stephen Foster , Stephen Collins Foster