FOSTER-BROTHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foster-brother mean? 

• FOSTER-BROTHER (noun)
  The noun FOSTER-BROTHER has 1 sense:

1. your foster brother is a male who is not a son of your parents but who is raised by your parents

  Familiarity information: FOSTER-BROTHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOSTER-BROTHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Your foster brother is a male who is not a son of your parents but who is raised by your parents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

foster-brother; foster brother

Hypernyms ("foster-brother" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

 Context examples 

You would scarce credit it, and yet it is sooth that when I was taken at Poictiers it was all that my wife and foster-brother could do to raise the money from them for my ransom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)