foster father

1. 1.

   a man who is a foster parent

   Synonymsfoster-father

   Broaderfoster-parentfather figure

Questions about foster father

What does foster father mean?

foster father means "a man who is a foster parent".

What is another word for foster father?

Close synonyms include foster-father. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foster father a common word?

foster father 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.