United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

your foster brother is a male who is not a son of your parents but who is raised by your parents

Of or relating to human society and its modes of organization, Interacting with other people and living in communities, the science of all that relates to the social condition, the relations and institutions which are involved in man's existence and his well-being as a member of an organized community; sociology. It concerns itself with questions of the public health, education, labor, punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the like, noun_ A festive gathering to foster introductions, a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity, US Short for social security number

having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere, Not in accord with the usual regulations; unofficial, Characterized by nontechnical vocabulary, simple sentence structure, and relatively few explicit transitions, as typified by spoken language

To nurse; cherish, To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up, in obsolete To be nourished or trained up together, verb_ promote the growth of, bring up under fosterage; of children, adjective_ Providing parental care and nurture to children not related through legal or blood ties, one who takes the place of a mother; a nurse, earth by which a plant is nourished, though not its native soil, noun_ countable, obsolete A forester, uncountable The care given to another; guardianship

To inspire with hope, courage, or confidence, To give support to; foster, To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage, verb_ To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit, spur on, contribute to the progress or growth of

One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as_ (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm, Hence, one who or that which nurtures, trains, cherishes, or protects, n A person trained to provide medical care for the sick or disabled, especially one who is licensed and works in a hospital or physician's office, intransitive verb_ To cause or allow to take milk from the breast, To try to cure by special care or treatment, To consume slowly, especially in order to conserve, transitive verb_ To nourish; to cherish; to foster, To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant

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