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nursery

[ nur-suh-ree ]

noun

plural nurseries.
  1. a room or place set apart for young children.
  2. a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting, for sale, or for experimental study.
  3. any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered:

    The art institute has been the nursery of much great painting.

  4. any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something:

    Slums are nurseries for young criminals.



nursery

/ ˈɜːɪ /

noun

    1. a room in a house set apart for use by children
    2. ( as modifier )

      nursery wallpaper

  1. a place where plants, young trees, etc, are grown commercially
  2. an establishment providing residential or day care for babies and very young children; crèche
  3. short for nursery school
  4. anywhere serving to foster or nourish new ideas, etc
  5. Also callednursery cannon billiards
    1. a series of cannons with the three balls adjacent to a cushion, esp near a corner pocket
    2. a cannon in such a series
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·Գܰİ· adjective noun plural prenurseries
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of nursery1

First recorded in 1350–1400, nursery is from the Middle English word norcery. See nurse, -ery
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Annual nursery costs for children under three in England have fallen, according to the children's charity Coram.

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"She asked me the other day if I would let mummy pick her up one day from nursery and I could not sleep from the sorrow."

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Ofsted - which inspects England's education providers - says the rise may, in part, be due to its increased efforts to ensure nurseries report such events.

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Rev Murray said the restriction had also hit numbers at Sunday School and the nursery sessions held at the church.

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Babies were often separated, placed in large nursery rooms and cared for by midwives.

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