foster mother

1. 1.

   a woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child

   Synonymsfoster-mother

   Broaderfoster-parent

Questions about foster mother

What does foster mother mean?

foster mother means "a woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child".

What is another word for foster mother?

Close synonyms include foster-mother. 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 mother a common word?

foster mother 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.