Definition for Fosterage:

• The charge of nursing.

Synonyms for Fosterage:

• n.

  •adoption (noun)
  • fostering,
  • fosterage,
  • Naturalizing,
  • Adopting,
  • raising,
  • taking in,
  • raisings.
  •breeding (noun)
  • breeding.
  •bringing up (noun)
  • bringing up.
  •fosterage (noun)
  • upbringing,
  • rearing,
  • nurture.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • acculturation,
  • adoption,
  • encouragement,
  • enculturation,
  • socialisation,
  • socialization.

Fosterage Sentence Examples:

• What is more, long after the dissolution of the clans, fosterage has continued stealthily in certain districts in which the old race of chiefs and clansmen contrived to cling together to the old sod; and the affection generated by it has been demonstrated, down to the middle of the nineteenth century.

• So he went before the King and said, " If thou art willing, Cormac, I would gladly have one of thy sons in fosterage."

Hyponym for Fosterage:

• n.

  • communication
    encouragement.