FOSTERING Synonyms

• giving courage or confidence or hope

• furnishing support and encouragement

• the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

• furnishing support and encouragement

• capable of bearing a structural load

• foster the growth of

• prepare for crops

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• make easier

• be of use

• increase the likelihood of (a response)

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• help develop, help grow

• look after a child until it is an adult

• provide with nourishment

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

• be changed for a superior chess or checker piece

• change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• help develop, help grow

• look after a child until it is an adult

• provide with nourishment

• elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization

• the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

• producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring

• encouragement; aiding the development of something

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense)

• in addition or furthermore

• to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense)

• more distant in especially degree

• promote the growth of

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• the event of something being raised upward

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• increasing in quantity or value

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile

• someone who takes the place of another person

• a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

• providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

• United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)