Definition of "foster-father" [foster-father]

• One who takes the place of a father in nourishing and rearing a child; a nurse's husband. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He was a sort of foster-father to the youth who startled the literary world with his brilliant and forceful prose, just as he amazed his associates by his freedom of thought and capacity for living."
• "The foster-father has since been arrested, although police are continuing to search for his wife."
• "The child's foster-father claims she had been bought for about $20 from a worker at a hospital devastated in the disaster, which killed over 30,000 people."