Meanings of foster-parent in English

The county could decide Glory wasn't foster-parent material after all.

With all his faults Lewis Langley had been a good foster-parent to his adopted children.

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

The State becomes a foster-parent, and as far as possible provides a substitute for the home.

Professor Lloyd Morgan was foster-parent to two moorhens which grew up in isolation from their kindred.

Rome became the foster-parent, the possessor of authority.

Except these days, the Mini's material choices and build quality might even shame its Bavarian foster-parent.

Then my foster-parent died, leaving me his fortune.

No man, living or dead, shall deprive the living of the sustenance which the earth, their foster-parent, is naturally inclined to provide for them.

He did everything in his power to give pleasure to his foster-parents.

My foster-parents, or my tormentors rather, were called Mr. and Mistress Simon.

The two foster-parents flew to him again and again with food.

My foster-parents parted with me for money, and I was sent to London.

Soon he became a great pet of his foster-parents, who rather spoiled him.

Her foster-parents watched her, bewildered, so gentle was she, so thoughtful.

To the earnest inquiries of her foster-parents, Fanny could give no very satisfactory answer.