Nursery

Quick meaning: Nursery is a noun meaning (countable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.

Meaning

(countable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.

More Meanings

1. (countable, also figuratively) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
2. (countable) Something which educates and nurtures.
3. (countable, billiards) Ellipsis of nursery cannon (“a carom shot involving balls that are very close together”).
4. (countable, obsolete, rare) Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
5. (uncountable, obsolete) The act of nursing or rearing.

Example Sentences

Commerce is the nursery of seamen.

I lou'd her moſt, and thought to ſet my reſt / On her kind nurcery, [...]

[S]ince for the great deſire I had To ſee faire Padua, nurſerie of Arts, I am arriu'd for fruitfull Lombardie, The pleaſant garden of great Italy.

Playes are the nurseries of vice, the bawd, / That thorow the senses steales our hearts abroad, / Tainting our eares with obscæne bawdery, / Lascivious words, and wanton ribaulry.

Word Forms

• nurseries

Synonyms for nursery

Depending on context, synonyms include greenhouse, glasshouse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include greenhouse, glasshouse, creche, daycare, childcare, orphanage.

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