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# fosterling

«fosterling» in Mova's school dictionary: **a child or young animal brought up by someone who is not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (fosterlings)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) A fosterling is a child or young animal brought up by someone who is not its own parent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fosterling/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories, a foster child raised by a kind adult, or a master's pupil

### examples

- The king raised the orphan as his fosterling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fosterling/#x1)
- His fosterling lamented that the hard art would never be mastered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fosterling/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fosterling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fosterling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.