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Meanings of foster-parents in английском

русский
приёмные родители
испанский
padres de acogida

Parent who raises someone who is not their natural or adoptive child.

Related terms
приёмные родители
Synonyms
Examples for "foster father and foster mother"
Examples for "foster father and foster mother"
1
He's an Academy Award-nominated actor, a former foster parent for cats.
The new yorker
2
A long-term foster parent, Bennett cares for disadvantaged youth in his own home.
The Guardian
3
And, every night, I'd ring the foster parent and ask how she was doing.
The Guardian
4
I love this. Smith became Infinity's foster parent in August.
Ebony
5
It's almost like being sent off with a foster parent.
Radio NZ
Usage of foster-parents in английском
1
He did everything in his power to give pleasure to his foster-parents.
After Long Years and Other Stories
2
My foster-parents, or my tormentors rather, were called Mr. and Mistress Simon.
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
3
The two foster-parents flew to him again and again with food.
The King of Ireland's Son
4
My foster-parents parted with me for money, and I was sent to London.
The Eternal City
5
Soon he became a great pet of his foster-parents, who rather spoiled him.
The Short-story
6
Her foster-parents watched her, bewildered, so gentle was she, so thoughtful.
Undine
7
To the earnest inquiries of her foster-parents, Fanny could give no very satisfactory answer.
True Riches; Or, Wealth Without Wings
8
My foster-parents had opened a shop-ithad the appearance of a most respectable fruiterer's.
Rattlin the Reefer
9
She had consulted her foster-parents, and after them her lover.
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and S...
10
His advance to maturity seemed to his foster-parents dishearteningly slow.
Last and First Men
11
Her foster-parents, who were German-born, and had never become thoroughly Americanized, saw no objection.
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and S...
12
Jim's foster-parents were, in truth, glad to part with him.
Judith of the Plains
13
So long as his foster-parents lived he had had news from them of the Blombergs.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 01
14
She left her foster-parents alone, and threaded the forest.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 / A Magazi...
15
Those you regarded as your parents were but foster-parents, though they bore the same name.
The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
16
As evening was approaching she wished her foster-parents good-bye.
Won from the Waves
Translations for foster-parents