foster home

[faw-ster hohm, fos-ter] / ˈfɔ stər ˈhoʊm, ˈfɒs tər /

NOUN

household caring for orphaned or troubled child

Synonyms

WEAK

halfway house safe harbor safe house

Example Sentences

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The state placed her in an “affirming” foster home, where she shares a bedroom with a teenage boy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The stigma stayed with PJ his whole life, even after finding a loving foster home and, in later years, tracking down his birth mother, who was separated from him when he was a one-year-old.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

Paige has now been placed in a foster home.

From BBC • May 6, 2025

She rested in an incubator in the shelter’s ICU until staffers found a foster home where she could recover.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

The first foster home I was in taught me that real quick.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis