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nursery
[ nur-suh-ree ]
noun
- a room or place set apart for young children.
- a nursery school or day nursery.
- a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting, for sale, or for experimental study.
- any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered:
The art institute has been the nursery of much great painting.
- any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something:
Slums are nurseries for young criminals.
nursery
/ ˈɜːɪ /
noun
- a room in a house set apart for use by children
- ( as modifier )
nursery wallpaper
- a place where plants, young trees, etc, are grown commercially
- an establishment providing residential or day care for babies and very young children; crèche
- short for nursery school
- anywhere serving to foster or nourish new ideas, etc
- Also callednursery cannon billiards
- a series of cannons with the three balls adjacent to a cushion, esp near a corner pocket
- a cannon in such a series
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·Գܰİ· adjective noun plural prenurseries
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Annual nursery costs for children under three in England have fallen, according to the children's charity Coram.
"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."
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.
Rev Murray said the restriction had also hit numbers at Sunday School and the nursery sessions held at the church.
Babies were often separated, placed in large nursery rooms and cared for by midwives.
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