Adoption
Adoption noun - A legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit).
Fostering and adoption are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fostering" instead a noun "Adoption".
Fostering
Fostering noun - Encouragement; aiding the development of something.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- help and adoption
- help and fostering
- encouragement and adoption
- encouragement and fostering
- support and adoption
- support and fostering
- backing and adoption
- backing and fostering
- promotion and adoption
- promotion and fostering
- taking in and adoption
- taking in and fostering
- advocacy and adoption
- advocacy and fostering
Both words in one sentence
-
The Fosters has this, largely through fostering/adoption.
Source: Massive Numbered Siblings - Boneland expands on this by offering the extra layer of childhood trauma: that the parents died in an air crash, making the fostering into permanent adoption.
Source: Literature / Boneland
Cite this Source
Fostering and Adoption. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/adoption/fostering
Adoption & Fostering. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/adoption/fostering>.
Fostering or Adoption. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/adoption/fostering.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "adoption" and "fostering" have occurred on timeline