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foster homes

foster homes is the plural of foster home.

Meaning of foster home

Noun

foster home (plural foster homes)

  1. A household in which a child is placed for foster care.
    • Pete's foster home placements were never successful.2007, Geraldine M Humphrey, David G Zimpfer, Counselling for Grief and Bereavement
  2. 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.
    • The group placed him in a foster home with a woman and two little girls, then advertised in the local paper.2003, Marilyn Cochran Mosley, Dachshund Tails Rescued and Other Tales

Questions about foster homes

What is foster homes the plural of?
Foster homes is the plural of foster home.

Words near foster homes in the dictionary

  1. foster families
  2. foster family
  3. foster father
  4. foster fathers
  5. foster home
  6. foster homes
  7. Foster Kennedy syndrome
  8. foster mother
  9. foster mothers
  10. Foster North
  11. foster parent

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