Synonyms of the word

adoptive

• adj. Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption.

adopted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of adopt.

foster

• adj. Providing parental care to unrelated children.
• adj. Receiving such care.
• adj. Related by such care.
• n. (countable, obsolete) A forester.
• n. (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
• v. (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
• v. (transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
• v. (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.

surrogate

• n. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
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• n. (chiefly Britain) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
• n. (US law): A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and interstate…
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• n. (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters…
• adj. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.