foster daughter
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- noun
- /ˈfɔstər ˈdɔtər/
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- 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.
Blog text (32) -
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.
Blog text (12) -
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
A girl or young woman raised as a daughter but not related by birth
A child raised and cared for by people who are not their birth parents
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.