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PRONUNCIATION OF FOSTERAGE

fosterage  [ˈfɒstərɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOSTERAGE

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fosterage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOSTERAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fosterage

Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents. In many modern western societies foster care can be organised by the state to care for children with troubled family backgrounds, usually on a temporary basis. In many pre-modern societies fosterage was a form of patronage, whereby influential families cemented political relationships by bringing up each other's children, similar to arranged marriages, also based on dynastic or alliance calculations. This practice was once common in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland.

Definition of fosterage in the English dictionary

The first definition of fosterage in the dictionary is the act of caring for or bringing up a foster child. Other definition of fosterage is the condition or state of being a foster child. Fosterage is also the act of encouraging or promoting.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOSTERAGE


acreage
ˈeɪkərɪdʒ
altarage
ˈɔːltərɪdʒ
amperage
ˈæmpərɪdʒ
anchorage
ˈæŋkərɪdʒ
average
ˈævərɪdʒ
beverage
ˈbɛvərɪdʒ
brokerage
ˈbrəʊkərɪdʒ
coverage
ˈkʌvərɪdʒ
factorage
ˈfæktərɪdʒ
hemorrhage
ˈhemərɪdʒ
hucksterage
ˈhʌkstərɪdʒ
leverage
ˈliːvərɪdʒ
lighterage
ˈlaɪtərɪdʒ
porterage
ˈpɔːtərɪdʒ
proctorage
ˈprɒktərɪdʒ
quarterage
ˈkwɔːtərɪdʒ
sewerage
ˈsuːərɪdʒ
tutorage
ˈtjuːtərɪdʒ
waiterage
ˈweɪtərɪdʒ
waterage
ˈwɔːtərɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOSTERAGE

fossilise
fossilised
fossilizable
fossilization
fossilize
fossilized
fossor
fossorial
fossula
fossulate
foster
foster child
foster father
foster home
foster mother
foster parent
fosterer
fostering
fosterling
fostress

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOSTERAGE

cooperage
customs brokerage
deleverage
Dow-Jones average
garage
general average
goal average
grade point average
interage
moving average
Nikkei average
Nikkei Stock Average
noncoverage
on average
overage
peerage
pierage
pilferage
steerage
underage
weighted average

Synonyms and antonyms of fosterage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fosterage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOSTERAGE

Find out the translation of fosterage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fosterage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fosterage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

寄养
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acogimiento
570 millions of speakers

English

fosterage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fosterage
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

fosterage
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Воспитание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fosterage
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুধপান করানোর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

confiage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fosterage
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fosterage
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

fosterage
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

육성을
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Panjaluke
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự nuôi con
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fosterage
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फोडारेरेज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fosterage
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

affidamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fosterage
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

виховання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

impulsionarea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

fosterage
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fosterage
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fostran
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fosterage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fosterage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOSTERAGE»

The term «fosterage» is normally little used and occupies the 144.546 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOSTERAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fosterage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fosterage» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fosterage

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOSTERAGE»

Discover the use of fosterage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fosterage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia. Vol. 1-
The responsibility for arranging and paying for the fosterage fell to both the maternal and paternal kin of the child (co-fostering). Each kin group provided half the fosterage fee. Protesting against a fosterage placement was an important right of ...
John T. Koch, 2006
2
Ancient Laws of Ireland ...: Senchus mor ; pt. II Law of ...
Over-fosterage-fee. requires. one. fosterage. after. FOSTF.B-. another. AGE. In the case of over-fosterage-fee, one fosterage is required to be performed after anotber. And it was in ignorance the father had given it ; but if he had given it ...
Ireland, William Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, 1869
3
Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial And Covert ...
In Scotland, fosterage occurred more frequently at other levels in society, though nearly always in a Gaelic context. Thus the primary function of Scottish fosterage concerned the creation of alliances both within clans and between clans, ...
Steve Murdoch, 2006
4
Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland
Over-fosterage-fee requires one fosterage after foster- another. — '□ In the case of over-fosterage-fee, one fosterage is required to be performed after another. And it was in ignorance the father had given it ; but if he had given it knowingly, ...
‎1869
5
Cross-cultural Approaches to Adoption
Fosterage. and. the. politics. of. marriage. and. kinship. in. East. Cameroon. Catrien. Notermans. In some regions in Africa south of the Sahara, large numbers of children live during long periods of time separated from their mother as foster ...
Fiona Bowie, 2004
6
Youth and Age in the Medieval North
FOSTERAGE AND DEPENDENCY IN MEDIEVAL ICELAND AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN GÍSLA SAGA Anna Hansen Saga characters often exercised the option of fostering their children. This meant that a portion of the responsibilities of ...
Shannon Lewis-Simpson, 2008
7
Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia
Fosterage was the medieval Irish custom by which the parents of a child would send him or her to be raised and educated by another family. Two main categories of fosterage are discernible: fosterage for affection or fosterage for a fee.
Seán Duffy, 2004
8
Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland
Muimmi and the Bonds of Affection Fosterage cleverly filled all sorts of holes in the social fabric. For boys and girls in competition with kinsmen over inheritance, fosterage provided sustaining allies. For mothers seeking to fortify ties to their own ...
Lisa M. Bitel, 1996
9
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish women's ...
The fosterage fee varied according to the rank of the child's father. Girls were more expensive (generally one- third more) to foster than boys because their needs were seen as more complex. The daughter of a farmer was taught how to run a ...
Angela Bourke, 2002
10
Constructing History, Culture and Inequality: The Betsileo ...
The tompon-tany families are characterised by their particularly strong internal cohesion. One of the principal agents of interdependence which binds the households is their large-scale fosterage system.23 Tompon-tany households exchange ...
Sandra Evers, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOSTERAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fosterage is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Women's Issues Inspire Tauzeni
... critically bond our family structures, fosterage of children, constitute the majority of the population amongst various things, yet for far too long ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
2
Social Welfare to revive care reform initiative
According to him, in the absence of blood relations, DSW encourages alternative family care through formalised fosterage that would reduce ... «Citifmonline, Jun 15»
3
I don't know anyone whose family wasn't odd...what matters most is …
Much of my childhood was spent in fosterage with an aunt and uncle, who were kind and conscientious, but very different from my birth family. «Belfast Telegraph, Jun 15»
4
Taking Off Hijab in front of a Non-Muslim Uncle
... stricter in the presence of males who are non-mahram (who are not related to the woman by blood, marriage or fosterage). If this uncle is your ... «Onislam.net, Apr 15»
5
'It seemed to me miraculous that you could actually hear …
A: An intellectually hungry and often dissatisfied and rebellious young person will look around for wherever there is fosterage — libraries, ... «Harvard Gazette, Apr 15»
6
The Kabardian people. A radio broadcast of the “Peoples of Russia …
Nobles practiced fosterage. Academician P-S. Pallas, who visited Kabarda in 1793, referred to Kabardian etiquette as “politeness taken to the ... «vestnik kavkaza, Feb 15»
7
Cornell anthropologist Bernd Lambert dies at 82
Publications by Lambert include “Fosterage as a Model for the Aristocratic-Commoner Relationship in the Northern Gilbert Islands” (1965) and ... «Cornell Chronicle, Jan 15»
8
The grandeur of Dún Aonghusa
We also read of the lives of the children, more especially the conditions of fosterage and how they too differed according to the social status of ... «Galway Advertiser, Nov 14»
9
Amazon Warriors Did Indeed Fight and Die Like Men
But it turns out that it was a very common custom among nomadic people, called fosterage. Sending sons to be raised by another tribe ensures ... «National Geographic, Oct 14»
10
The Real Amazons
Some groups may have practiced “fosterage”: the exchange of children to cement alliances. The best accounts of “Amazon sex,” meanwhile, ... «The New Yorker, Oct 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Fosterage [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/fosterage>. Apr 2024 ».
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