foster daughter
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- noun
- /ˈfɔstər ˈdɔtər/
- A third mother described having to fight the school when the school tried to "cancel her foster daughter's IEP" because of too many absences (she ran away frequently).
- year-old foster daughter
- old foster daughter
Examples
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But for now, the Mayor bails with his box and his foster daughter; the Ascension's still a go, and we get to have a happy nobody-died Scooby reunion.
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Since we live with our Aunt Bailey, that means we also get to live with her two foster daughters.
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My daughter... and my... foster daughter.
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Just yesterday, in fact, we had the privilege of hosting a dear friend's foster daughter for a couple of hours.
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Since we live with our Aunt Bailey, that means we also get to live with her two foster daughters.
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For example, Albert (pseudonyms are used throughout to protect the participants' identities) cared for his foster daughter while she was dying: "I wouldn't accept that she was gone because I had taken care of her for 2 1/2 years before she left me, and we were so close."
Academic text (2007) -
They had approached Xiaoping's foster father, a rural farmer from a neighboring province, with an offer that they would give his disabled foster daughter a job in a toy factory in the city.
Academic text (2009) -
A genuine grin lit up on her face as she embraced her foster daughter.
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Just yesterday, in fact, we had the privilege of hosting a dear friend's foster daughter for a couple of hours.
Synonyms
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A young person raised by people who are not their birth or adoptive parents
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A child raised and cared for by people who are not their birth parents
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A girl or young woman raised as a daughter but not related by birth
How Related
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'foster' (to raise or care for a child who is not biologically yours) with 'daughter' (a female child); the adjective+noun composition transparently yields 'a female child raised by non-biological caregivers'. This is a common, regular semantic pattern across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Foster daughter comes from the old sense of foster meaning 'to feed or raise' and daughter meaning a girl child. So a foster daughter is a girl who is looked after and raised by people who are not her birth parents, often through a care arrangement but not officially adopted.