to foster
104
3.7
- verb
- /ˈfɔstər/
:
fomentar
- The teacher works hard to foster a love of reading in her students.
- foster development
- foster positive relationships
- foster understanding
Don't let their neglect of you foster your neglect of yourself.
- Don't let their neglect of you foster your neglect of yourself.
- What's the best thing I can do to foster their closeness?
- And I think really love and foster the beauty in our lives.
- Try to use your technology to foster, to empower my people.
- Yellen was crucial to fostering this new sense of openness.
- And that just breeds and fosters this environment of, of passion.
- The other thing is to foster a curious mindset.
- It gives you a physical balance that really fosters a well functioning brain.
- That's the key, absolute key problem, how to foster the creativity.
- It can erode your sense of trust and safety and foster a lifelong sense of anxiety.
- What do you think Brian and his wife have done to foster some of that?
- Roll onto your temples or wrists before bedtime to foster sound sleep.
- But I'm like, I really like how she fosters care in her set.
- And, and I think just trying to maintain that mindset while also fostering their ability to dream.
- So it fostered that sense of the heart of what the brand was.
Examples
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I'm attempting to foster collaboration, Mr. Tookus.
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Teachers who use instructional techniques that foster intrinsic motivation are more likely to be effective.
Academic text (2008) -
And how did you foster that at the magazine?
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And now we have a growing company where we can foster new writers.
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The standards are designed to foster teaching partnerships and build a community of learners.
Academic text (2015) -
In a university setting, different departments may foster different attitudes in students toward faculty.
Academic text (2013) -
The Board also creates initiatives to help foster a positive image of computing among young people.
Academic text (2012) -
Engineers will have to lead in a way that fosters creative solutions to global "grand challenges."
Academic text (2011) -
Additionally, follow-ups to reference transactions would be ideal and could help foster positive and collaborative student-librarian relationships.
Academic text (2012) -
Yellen was crucial to fostering this new sense of openness.
Synonyms
∞
1.3
To slowly make something stronger over time, like trust or skill
737
1.8
To help a person or group learn skills and improve
566
3.2
Help something grow and become more successful
325
2.1
Help something grow or develop
155
3.5
To care for and encourage someone or something to grow
102
3.5
To help something make progress or grow
82
4.1
To help a skill, interest or relationship grow
2
2.9
To help something become bigger or better over time
Antonyms
Compounds
42
3.2
A person who cares for a child instead of the child's parents without adopting them
14
3.5
A family that cares for a child who is not their own for a time when the parents cannot
1
3.5
A person who cares for a child temporarily in their home but is not the child's legal or birth parent
1
3.3
A girl or young woman who lives with people who are not her birth parents and is not adopted
1
3.5
A girl or woman not related by birth who your parents raise as part of the family
How Supportive
64
4.2
566
3.2
753
1.4
104
3.7
∞
2.3
∞
1.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Foster also means 'to encourage or help something grow' and it keeps the old idea of fost 'to nourish', so to foster an idea, skill, or relationship is to feed and support it until it grows.