Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who takes the place of a father in nourishing and rearing a child; a nurse's husband.
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- noun a man who is a foster parent
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Examples
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He was a sort of foster-father to the youth who startled the literary world with his brilliant and forceful prose, just as he amazed his associates by his freedom of thought and capacity for living.
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The child's foster-father claims she had been bought for about $20 from a worker at a hospital devastated in the disaster, which killed over 30,000 people.
Sri Lanka Child Assumed Dead In 2004 Tsunami Is Found After Six Years The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Coached by my ambitious foster-father, I had a considerable array of compelling arguments at my disposal.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Coached by my ambitious foster-father, I had a considerable array of compelling arguments at my disposal.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Coached by my ambitious foster-father, I had a considerable array of compelling arguments at my disposal.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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The child's foster-father claims she had been bought for about $20 from a worker at a hospital devastated in the disaster, which killed over 30,000 people.
Sri Lanka Child Assumed Dead In 2004 Tsunami Is Found After Six Years The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The foster-father has since been arrested, although police are continuing to search for his wife.
Sri Lanka Child Assumed Dead In 2004 Tsunami Is Found After Six Years The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The foster-father has since been arrested, although police are continuing to search for his wife.
Sri Lanka Child Assumed Dead In 2004 Tsunami Is Found After Six Years The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The foster-father has since been arrested, although police are continuing to search for his wife.
Sri Lanka Child Assumed Dead In 2004 Tsunami Is Found After Six Years The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The child's foster-father claims she had been bought for about $20 from a worker at a hospital devastated in the disaster, which killed over 30,000 people.
Sri Lanka Child Assumed Dead In 2004 Tsunami Is Found After Six Years The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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