Foster vs. Nourish — What's the Difference?

To bring up; nurture

To provide with food or other substances necessary for life and growth; feed.

To promote the growth and development of; cultivate

To foster the development of; promote

To nurse; cherish

To keep alive; maintain

Providing parental care and nurture to children not related through legal or blood ties

(obsolete) A nurse.

Receiving parental care and nurture from those not related to one through legal or blood ties

(transitive) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.

Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.

(transitive) To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.

Receiving such care.

(transitive) To encourage; to foster; to stimulate

Related by such care.

(transitive)To cherish; to comfort.

A foster parent.

To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.

(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.

(intransitive) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.

To gain nourishment.

(transitive) To cultivate and grow something.

To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

(transitive) To nurse or cherish something.

To support; to maintain.

To be nurtured or trained up together.

To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.

To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

To cherish; to comfort.

To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.

To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.

To be nourished or trained up together.

To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; - applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.

To gain nourishment.

A forester.

A nurse.

United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

Provide with nourishment;

Promote the growth of;

Give nourishment to

Bring up under fosterage; of children

Help develop, help grow;

Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties;