foster family

1. 1.

   the family of a fosterling

   Broaderfamily

Questions about foster family

What does foster family mean?

foster family means "the family of a fosterling".

Is foster family a common word?

foster family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.