Synonyms of the word

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.

adoptive

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

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

boost

• n. A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
• n. (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers.
• v. (transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming…
• v. (slang, transitive) To steal.
• v. (Canada, transitive) To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To give a booster shot to.

encourage

• v. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
• v. To spur on, strongly recommend.
• v. To foster, give help or patronage.

further

• v. (transitive) To encourage growth.
• v. To support progress or growth of something.
• adj. comparative form of far: more far; of or pertaining to being distant, or of greater distance in degree…
• adj. More, additional.
• adv. comparative form of far: more far.
• adv. (conjunctive) Also; in addition to.
• adv. (location) At greater distance in space or time; farther.
• adv. (conjunctive) Moreover; beyond what is already stated.

nurture

• n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
• n. That which nourishes; food; diet.
• n. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
• v. To nourish or nurse.
• v. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.

parent

• n. One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
• n. A surrogate mother.
• n. A third person who has provided DNA samples in a IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
• n. A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
• n. (obsolete) A relative.
• n. The source or origin of something.
• n. (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
• n. (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
• n. (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
• v. To act as parent, to raise or rear.

promote

• v. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
• v. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell…
• v. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
• v. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to the above league.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
• v. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
• v. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

rear

• v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
• v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
• v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
• v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
• v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
• v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
• v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
• v. (transitive) To move; stir.
• v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
• v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
• adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
• adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
• adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
• adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
• n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
• n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
• n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
• v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).

songster

• n. A man who sings songs, especially as a profession; a male singer.
• n. A male songbird.
• n. (formal) One who writes songs.
• n. (US) A book of songs; songbook.

songwriter

• n. (music) A musician who composes songs; including writing the song's lyrics and creating a melody or tune…

surrogate

• n. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
• n. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate…
• 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…
• n. A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object…
• 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.