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FOSTER FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does foster family mean?
• FOSTER FAMILY (noun)
The noun FOSTER FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. the family of a fosterling
Familiarity information: FOSTER FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The family of a fosterling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("foster family" is a kind of...):
family; home; house; household; menage (a social unit living together)
Context examples
Unrelated persons who are part of the same foster family.
(Foster Relative, NCI Thesaurus)
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