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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They are all now settling into a foster home.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

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

An attorney for Herman Law said in a court filing the client believed she’d been in a foster home there, and the lack of records didn’t conclusively establish anything.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

By May 1984, two of the Galston sisters — Denise and Debbie — had joined Sindle at the foster home.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

There’d been six previous occasions when all her possessions were dumped into cardboard boxes and dropped off at a new foster home.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti