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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, fostered, fostering, Fosters

See also: adoptive, fosterage, fostering

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

Encyclopedia: Foster, Indiana Foster, James Foster, Illinois Foster, Henry Foster, IN Foster, Mark Foster, Michael Foster, MO Foster, Jodie Foster, John Foster, Greg Foster, Clark County, WI Foster, Clark County, Wisconsin Foster, Charles Foster Foster, Bill Foster, Frank Foster, George Foster, Fort Bend County, Texas Foster, Donald Foster, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin Foster, Missouri Foster, Stephen Foster, Victoria Foster, Roy Foster, Richard Foster, Robert Foster, Wisconsin Foster, You're Dead! Foster, William Trufant Foster, WI Foster, Wilder De Ayr Foster, Rhode Island Foster, OH Foster, Ohio Foster, Norman Foster, NE Foster, Nebraska Foster, Rastrick and Company Foster, Reginald Foster, RI Foster, Oklahoma Foster, Paul