[ˈfɒstə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- encourage the development of (something, especially something desirable)
(e.g: the teacher's task is to foster learning)

- bring up (a child that is not one's own by birth)
(e.g: a person who would foster Holly was found)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English fōstrian ‘feed, nourish’, from fōster ‘food, nourishment’, of Germanic origin; related to food. The sense ‘bring up another's (originally also one's own) child’ dates from Middle English. See also foster-