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fosters

fosters is the plural of foster.

fosters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foster.

Meaning of foster

Noun (1)

foster (countable and uncountable, plural fosters)

  1. (countable, informal) A foster parent.
    • Some fosters end up adopting.
  2. (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.

Noun (2)

foster (plural fosters)

  1. (obsolete) A forester.
    • A griesly Foster forth did rush.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Proper noun capitalized: Fosters

Fosters

  1. (plural) plural of Foster.

Phrases with fosters

Questions about fosters

What is fosters the plural of?
Fosters is the plural of foster.
What part of speech is fosters?
Fosters is a proper noun.

Words near fosters in the dictionary

  1. fosterling
  2. fosterlings
  3. fosterment
  4. fostermother
  5. fostermothers
  6. fosters
  7. fosters up
  8. Fosters Valley
  9. fostership
  10. Fosterville
  11. Foston on the Wolds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fosters (page history and authors); Fosters (page history and authors); foster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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