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Foster-parent

noun

A person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child. Synonym: foster parent.

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... new life-blood, nor was the tree in its turn at all affected by them. Connected with it only as separable parts of its structure, the cuttings might have been lopped off again without influencing perceptibly the condition of the foster-parent stem. The grafts in time grew to be great branches, but the trunk remained through it all the trunk of a sapling. In other words, the nation grew up to man's estate, keeping ...

— The Soul of the Far East • Percival Lowell

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... the first few days, all went prosperously, till fear was forgotten. Soft breezes sweep them tranquilly over the smooth bosom of the Mediterranean; Angelino sits among his heaps of toys, or listens to the seraphine, or leans his head with fondling hands upon the white goat, who is now to be his foster-parent, or in the captain's arms moves to and fro, gazing curiously at spars and rigging, or watches with delight the swelling canvass; while, under the constant stars, above the unresting sea, Margaret and Ossoli pace the deck ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. II • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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Words linked to "Foster-parent" : protector, defender, shielder, foster-mother, foster father, guardian, foster-father, foster mother