Noun

• S: (n) fostering, fosterage (encouragement; aiding the development of something)
• S: (n) breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing (helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community) "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

Verb

• S: (v) foster, further (promote the growth of) "Foster our children's well-being and education"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) foster (bring up under fosterage; of children)
• S: (v) foster, nurture (help develop, help grow) "nurture his talents"