foster home

1. 1.

   a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)

   Broaderfamily

Questions about foster home

What does foster home mean?

foster home means "a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)".

Is foster home a common word?

foster home 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.