Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foster_home

1 sense of foster home

Sense 1
foster home -- (a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency))
       => family, household, house, home, menage -- (a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home")