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Yes. The word foster is a Scrabble US word. The word foster is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (5 found)

FETORS,FOREST,FORTES,FOSTER,SOFTER,

5-letter words (17 found)

ESTRO,FETOR,FORES,FORTE,FORTS,FRETS,FROES,FROST,OFTER,ORFES,RESTO,ROSET,ROTES,STORE,TERFS,TORES,TORSE,

4-letter words (37 found)

EFTS,EROS,ERST,FEST,FETS,FOES,FORE,FORT,FRET,FROE,FROS,ORES,ORFE,ORFS,ORTS,REFS,REFT,REOS,REST,RETS,ROES,ROSE,ROST,ROTE,ROTS,SERF,SOFT,SORE,SORT,TEFS,TERF,TOES,TORE,TORS,TOSE,TREF,TRES,

3-letter words (31 found)

EFS,EFT,ERF,ERS,EST,FER,FES,FET,FOE,FOR,FRO,OES,OFT,ORE,ORF,ORS,ORT,OSE,REF,REO,RES,RET,ROE,ROT,SER,SET,SOT,TEF,TES,TOE,TOR,

2-letter words (14 found)

EF,ER,ES,ET,FE,OE,OF,OR,OS,RE,SO,ST,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 105 words from foster according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of foster

foster

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɒstə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɔstɚ/
  • (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈfɑstɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒstə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English foster, from Old English fōstor (“food, sustenance”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą (“nourishment, food”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch voester (“nursemaid”), Middle Low German vôster (“food”), Old Norse fóstr (“nurturing, education, alimony, child support”), Danish foster (“fetus”), Swedish foster (“fetus”).

Adjective

foster (not comparable)

  1. Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
    foster parents
  2. Receiving such care.
    a foster child
  3. Related by such care.
    We are a foster family.
Translations

Noun

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.

Verb

foster (third-person singular simple present fosters, present participle fostering, simple past and past participle fostered)

  1. (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
  2. (transitive) To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
  3. (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
Usage notes

Modern English makes a distinction between fostering (which is implied to be temporary or informal) and adopting (which is permanent and makes the child legally recognized as part of the family). In older usage the two terms were more interchangeable.

Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "cultivate and grow"): hinder
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

foster (plural fosters)

  1. (obsolete) A forester.

Anagrams

  • Forest, Forets, Fortes, fetors, forest, forset, fortes, fortés, froste, softer

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse fóstr (“rear, raise”), from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą.

Noun

foster n (singular definite fostret or fosteret, plural indefinite fostre)

  1. fetus

Inflection

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • fostre, voster
  • (Early ME) fostær
  • (hypercorrect) forster

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English fōster, from Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą; reinforced by Old English fōstre (“fosterer”). The vocalism is due to regular shortening before a three-consonant cluster (in the Old English oblique stem fōstr-).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔstər/, /ˈfɔstrə/

Noun

foster (plural *fostres)

  1. A child; one of one's progeny.
  2. (chiefly Early Middle English) Food or other care.
  3. (rare) A foster child or adopted child.
  4. (rare) A foster parent or adoptee.
Related terms
  • fosterbroder
  • fosterfader
  • fostermoder
  • fostren
Descendants
  • English: foster
  • Scots: foster
References
  • “foster, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  • “forstē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

foster

  1. Alternative form of forester

Etymology 3

Verb

foster

  1. Alternative form of fostren

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fóstr.

Noun

foster n (definite singular fosteret or fostret, indefinite plural foster or fostre, definite plural fostra or fostrene)

  1. (biology) a fetus or foetus

Derived terms

  • fostervann

Related terms

  • embryo

References

  • “foster” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fóstr.

Noun

foster n (definite singular fosteret, indefinite plural foster, definite plural fostera)

  1. (biology) a fetus or foetus

Related terms

  • embryo

References

  • “foster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfoːs.ter/

Noun

fōster n

  1. Alternative form of fōstor

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fóstr (“rear, raise”), from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʊstɛr/

Noun

foster n

  1. fetus

Declension

Related terms

  • fosterbror
  • fosterfördrivning
  • fosterhem
  • fostersyster
  • fostra

Source: wiktionary.org