Foster
See also: foster
English
Etymology
English surname, reduced from Forster; also from the noun foster.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒstə(ɹ)
Proper noun
Foster (countable and uncountable, plural Fosters)
- An English surname originating as an occupation, variant of Forster
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A placename
- A number of places in the United States:
- A former settlement in San Diego County, California.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Warren County, Indiana.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Bracken County, Kentucky.
- A township and unincorporatedcommunity therein, in Big Stone County, Minnesota.
- A village in Bates County, Missouri; named for Ohio governor Charles Foster.
- A village in Pierce County, Nebraska; named for George Foster, original owner of town's site.
- A town in Garvin County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporatedcommunity partly in Sweet Home, Linn County, Oregon.
- A town in Providence County, Rhode Island; named for Rhode Island statesman Theodore Foster.
- A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Clear Creek, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
- A village in the town of Brome Lake, southern Quebec, Canada.
- A town in South Gippsland Shire, south-east Victoria, Australia.
- Ellipsis of Foster County.
- A number of places in the United States:
Derived terms
- Foster County
Anagrams
- Forest, Forets, Fortes, fetors, forest, forset, fortes, fortés, froste, softer