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1. Promote the growth of
   "Foster our children's well-being and education";
   - further
    
2. Bring up under fosterage; of children
    
3. Help develop, help grow
   "foster his talents";
   - nurture

1. Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
   "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home";
   - surrogate

1. United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)
   - Stephen Foster, Stephen Collins Foster

Derived forms: fosters, Fosters, fostering, fostered

See also: adoptive

Type of: advance, ballad maker, boost, bring up, encourage, further, nurture, parent, promote, raise, rear, songster, songwriter

Encyclopedia: Foster, Norman