Boarding School, foster

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Chinese Boarding School Offers
A Break From Tradition

Guan Ai is a boarding school in a poor, tiny village. Though it lacks frills, its staff has made an effort to foster creativity, and it is a refuge from the competitive environment at traditional schools.

Meaning #1: a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught
Antonym: day school (meaning #1)

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boarding house noun [C]
a private house where you can pay to stay and receive meals

foster was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

• foster (TAKE CARE OF)
• foster (ENCOURAGE)

foster (ENCOURAGE)
verb [T]
to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings:
I'm trying to foster an interest in classical music in my children.
They were discussing the best way to foster democracy and prosperity in the former communist countries.

foster (TAKE CARE OF)
verb [I or T]
to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent:
Would you consider fostering (a child)?
Compare adopt (TAKE CHILD).

foster Hide phonetics
adjective [before noun]
a foster care/home/child/mother
She was taken into care by the local council and placed with a foster family.
As a child, he had lived with a succession of foster parents.


━━ vt. 育てる; 世話をする; （生長・発達などを）促進する; （希望・思想などを）心に抱く［育てる］.
━━ a. （血縁でなく）養育関係の.
foster brother [sister]　乳兄弟［姉妹］.
foster child [parent]　養子［養い親］.
foster daughter [son]　養女［養子］.
foster father [mother]　養父［母］.