Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

foster home

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English

Syllables: fos-ter home
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A household in which a child is placed for foster care.

noun

A household that volunteers to care for a domestic animal it does not own, especially by raising it from infancy until it is old enough to be adopted by a permanent owner.

Example Sentences

"Pete's foster home placements were never successful."
"For a long time, as they shifted him from foster home to foster home, his records lost somewhere, he believed he was an orphan; but slowly it came to him that this was not true: he was a bastard."
"The group placed him in a foster home with a woman and two little girls, then advertised in the local paper."

Etymology

From foster + home.

Inflected Forms

foster homes (plural) foster-home (alternative) fosterhome (alternative)

Phrases

foster care foster child foster family foster father foster mother foster parent

Frequently Paired Words

foster care foster child foster family foster father foster mother foster parent

Questions

What does foster home mean?: A household in which a child is placed for foster care.
Where does foster home come from?: From foster + home.

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