foster sister
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈfɔstər ˈsɪstər/
:
hermana de crianza
- My foster sister tried to discourage me while I was learning how to register for first-year courses by saying her friend tried to take an Intro to Psychology course and had to drop out because it was too hard.
I thought, well, that it seemed kind of she's she's described as his foster sister, even though they're not genetically related.
- I thought, well, that it seemed kind of she's she's described as his foster sister, even though they're not genetically related.
Examples
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Um, hey, isn't that your foster sister?
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I don't know, I had a foster sister in Oklahoma who used to say it all the time.
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My foster sister.
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"I am Esther, Shina's foster sister."
Fiction book (1997) -
I thought, well, that it seemed kind of she's she's described as his foster sister, even though they're not genetically related.
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My foster sister and I grew up sharing everything together, even our toys.
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When I moved to a new town, my foster sister helped me make friends.
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At the family reunion, I was excited to see my foster sister after so many years.
Synonyms
A girl or woman raised by your family who is not related by blood
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'foster' denotes a non-biological caregiving relationship and 'sister' denotes a female sibling; combined the phrase directly denotes a female raised as a sister but not biologically related. This is a straightforward adjective+noun composition common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning (though they might sometimes confuse it with 'stepsister').
Etymology
Foster sister comes from foster meaning to care for or raise someone and sister meaning a female sibling; imagine a girl taken into a home and treated like a real sister. That's why it means 'a girl or woman raised by your parents but not born to them'.