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Definitions for Nursery

[1] a room or place set apart for young children.
[2] a nursery school or day nursery.
[3] a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting, for sale, or for experimental study.
[4] any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered: The art institute has been the nursery of much great painting.
[5] any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something: Slums are nurseries for young criminals.
[6] a room in a house set apart for use by children (as modifier ) nursery wallpaper
[7] a place where plants, young trees, etc, are grown commercially
[8] an establishment providing residential or day care for babies and very young children; crèche
[9] short for nursery school
[10] anywhere serving to foster or nourish new ideas, etc
[11] Also called: nursery 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

Words related to Nursery

playroom, preschool, creche

Words nearby Nursery

nursehound, nurseling, nursemaid, nursemaid's elbow, nurser, nursery, nursery rhyme, nursery school, nursery slopes, nursery stakes, nurseryman

Origin of Nursery

First recorded in 1350–1400, nursery is from the Middle English word norcery. See nurse, -ery

Other words from Nursery

pre·nurs·er·y , adjective, noun, plural pre·nurs·er·ies.

Synonyms for Nursery

playroom, preschool, creche