Meaning

1 senses
  1. A child in foster care; a child in one's foster care, in relation to oneself.

    Pflegekind

    приёмный ребёнокprijómnyj rebjónok, приёмышprijómyš

    годо́ванецьhodóvanecʹ, ви́хова́нецьvýxovánecʹ, ви́хова́нкаvýxovánka

    a child who is raised by foster parents

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Most foster children have parents somewhere.

  2. Tom is a foster child.

  3. I was a foster child.

  4. Tom is my foster child.

  5. He decided to foster a child.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

Inherited from Old English fōstorċild.

Inherited from Old English fōstorċild.

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Forms

plural: foster children
Singularfoster child
Pluralfoster children

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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