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FOSTER HOME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("foster home" is a kind of...):
family; home; house; household; menage (a social unit living together)