foster mother
A female adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster careA female adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.
» Tom had three other foster mothers.
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1 sensesA female adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.
Pflegemutter, Ziehmutter, Nährmutter
приёмная матьprijómnaja matʹ
a woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child
Examples
4 sentencesTom had three other foster mothers.
Tom likes his foster mother.
deThomas mag seine Pflegemutter. — mramosch
He was visiting his foster mother.
deEr war bei seiner Ziehmutter zu Besuch. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
David's foster mother handed him back over to the orphanage.
Translations
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Forms
plural: foster mothersSynonyms
1 synonyms- a woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child:foster-mother
Word family
8 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.