fosterage

Other forms of fosterage

plural

fosterages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fosterage

What does fosterage mean?

fosterage means "encouragement; aiding the development of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fosterage?

fosterage has 3 syllables: fo-ste-rage. The stress falls on "fo".

What is another word for fosterage?

Close synonyms include fostering, breeding, bringing up, fostering, nurture. 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 fosterage a common word?

fosterage 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.