Parent who raises someone who is not their natural or adoptive child.
1He did everything in his power to give pleasure to his foster-parents.
2My foster-parents, or my tormentors rather, were called Mr. and Mistress Simon.
3The two foster-parents flew to him again and again with food.
4My foster-parents parted with me for money, and I was sent to London.
5Soon he became a great pet of his foster-parents, who rather spoiled him.
6Her foster-parents watched her, bewildered, so gentle was she, so thoughtful.
7To the earnest inquiries of her foster-parents, Fanny could give no very satisfactory answer.
8My foster-parents had opened a shop-ithad the appearance of a most respectable fruiterer's.
9She had consulted her foster-parents, and after them her lover.
10His advance to maturity seemed to his foster-parents dishearteningly slow.
11Her foster-parents, who were German-born, and had never become thoroughly Americanized, saw no objection.
12Jim's foster-parents were, in truth, glad to part with him.
13So long as his foster-parents lived he had had news from them of the Blombergs.
14She left her foster-parents alone, and threaded the forest.
15Those you regarded as your parents were but foster-parents, though they bore the same name.
16As evening was approaching she wished her foster-parents good-bye.
Translations for foster-parents