Definitions for foster-child

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foster-child foster child

Foster-Child is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 1477 anagrams from letters in foster-child (-cdefhilorst).

Definitions for foster-child

noun

1. a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
2. 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

Examples for foster-child

She seemed to realize this, but she was determined to die in the defense of her foster child.

Marian knelt down and picked up her foster child: “Now you mind your own business, you rogue,” she said to Philippina.

“It takes a very special kind of person, and nerve, to take on a foster child,” he says.

He will never again have to live with the Barahonas, who took him in as a foster child in 2004 and adopted him in 2009.

Once more she slicked down the soft fur of her foster child and murmured gentle words of love.

“The BND is a foster child of the USA,” historian Josef Foschepoth told the popular German news program Tagesschau.

“O Mother Wolf, you have spoken well, but we must see this foster child of yours,” he said.

She was going to speak for her foster child, and not let Sneaky introduce him.

The adopted country of each of these Italians gave more or less of its own impress to its foster child.

"That is Mrs. Vireo, my mate, and her foster child," continued the speaker.