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Foster vs Adoption - What's the difference?

foster | adoption |

As a proper noun foster

is , variant of forster.

As a noun adoption is

the act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

foster

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Providing parental care to unrelated children.
  • Receiving such care
  • Related by such care

    • Noun

  • (countable, obsolete) A forester
  • (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
  • To cultivate and grow something.
    • Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
  • To nurse or cherish something.
  • (obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
    • (Spenser)

    Antonyms

    * (cultivate and grow) hinder

    Derived terms

    * fosterable * fosterage * foster-child, foster child * fosterer * foster home * fosterhood * fostering * fosterment * foster parent

    Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    adoption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”}}
    A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption .
  • Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
  • The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
  • (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
    • Our school is considering the adoption of Wiktionary as the standard dictionary.