foster son
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈfɔstər sʌn/
:
hijo de crianza
- After years in foster care, my foster son finally found a loving family to call his own.
- year-old foster son
We found that Jackson had a foster son, I think it was, or stepson foster son who was going to Yale, but he got thrown out.
- We found that Jackson had a foster son, I think it was, or stepson foster son who was going to Yale, but he got thrown out.
Examples
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According to the police report Jonathan Parker, foster son of Maryville Police Department's Lt. Donald Parker dreamed of the killer.
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Then, one Father's Day, Jonathan and a few foster sons traveled with Henry to run a race in New York.
Fiction book (1994) -
I remember you just had a foster son.
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You know, when you become my apprentice, uh, you're going to live with me, very much like a foster son.
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Your story about your intrepid daughter reminded me of my foster son, Dan.
Blog text (3) -
Thus, Sissay began his life as "Norman Mark Greenwood," the foster son of white parents.
Blog text (25) -
Jimmy's son, Chuckie, you know, his foster son, was in the thing, too, but he didn't know it.
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Andrew Jackson had a foster son, I think it was, who came to Yale, but got thrown out, got thrown out for, I don't know, something.
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One man who wanted a neighbor to practice some traditional curing techniques on his foster son told me he had a couple of drinks before going to the curer to make the request.
Academic text (1994) -
"Not Ector's son, but his foster son," Myrddin corrected, in a voice whose carrying power quieted not only those around us but the townsfolk on the east side of the field.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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3.0
A young person raised by people who are not their birth or adoptive parents
A boy or young man raised and cared for by people who are not his birth parents
A child raised and cared for by people who are not their birth parents
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a boy or man raised as one's son though not biologically related' is directly and compositionally derived from 'foster' (nonbiological caregiving) + 'son' (male offspring). This adjective+noun pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents is likely to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Foster son comes from the old sense of foster, which meant to feed and care for a child, so the image is of someone taking in a boy and raising him like a son. So foster son means 'a boy who is raised by someone who is not related to him by birth'.