Definitions for nursery
ˈnɜr sə rinurs·e·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. nursery, baby's roomnoun

   a child's room for a baby

2. greenhouse, nursery, glasshousenoun

   a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

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1. Nurserynoun

   The place where nursing is carried on; as: (a) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children. (b) A place where young of any species, plant or animal, are nourished preparatory to transfer elsewhere; especially a place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees. (c) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. nurserynoun

   The act of nursing.

2. nurserynoun

   A place where nursing is carried on; as:

3. nurserynoun

   That which forms and educates.

   Commerce is the nursery of seamen.

4. nurserynoun

   That which is nursed.

5. Etymology: nurse + -ery

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nurserynoun

   Etymology: from nurse.

   1. The act or office of nursing.

   I lov’d her most, and thought to set my rest
   On her kind nursery. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

   2. That which is the object of a nurse’s care.

   She went forth among her fruits and flow’rs,
   To visit how they prosper’d, bud and bloom
   Her nursery: they at her coming sprung,
   And touch’d by her fair tendance gladlier grew. John Milton.

   3. A plantation of young trees to be transplanted to other ground.

   Your nursery of stocks ought to be in a more barren ground than the ground is whereunto you remove them. Francis Bacon.

   My paper is a kind of nursery for authors, and some who have made a good figure here, will hereafter flourish under their own names. Joseph Addison, Guard.

   4. Place where young children are nursed and brought up.

   I’ th’ swathing cloaths, the other from their nursery
   Were stol’n. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

   You see before you the spectacle of a Plantagenet, who hath been carried from the nursery to the sanctuary, from the sanctuary to the direful prison, from the prison to the hand of the cruel tormentor, and from that hand to the wide wilderness; for so the world hath been to me. Francis Bacon.

   Forthwith the devil did appear,
   Not in the shape in which he plies
   At miss’s elbow when she lies;
   Or stands before the nurs’ry doors,
   To take the naughty boy that roars. Matthew Prior.

   They have public nurseries, where all parents are obliged to send their infants to be educated. Gull. Trav.

   5. The place or state where any thing is fostered or brought up, from a nursery of children,or whence any thing is to be removed from a nursery of trees.

   This keeping of cows is of itself a very idle life, and a fit nursery for a thief. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
   I am arriv’d from fruitful Lombardy. William Shakespeare.

   A luxurious court is the nursery of diseases; it breeds them, it encourages, nourishes, and entertains them. Roger L'Estrange.

   A nursery erects its head,
   Where queens are form’d and future heroes bred;
   Where unfledg’d actors learn to laugh and cry. Dryden.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nurserynoun

   the act of nursing

2. Nurserynoun

   the place where nursing is carried on

3. Nurserynoun

   the place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children

4. Nurserynoun

   a place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees

5. Nurserynoun

   the place where anything is fostered and growth promoted

6. Nurserynoun

   that which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen

7. Nurserynoun

   that which is nursed

8. Etymology: [Cf. F. nourricerie.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nursery

   A place where plants, seeds and cultivar are created and managed.

   The nursery was beautiful to visit and see the colors and beauty of nature in bloom.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 25, 2020  

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   nursery

   A room within a house, property or form of housing for a baby or child.

   The baby's nursery is beautiful.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 25, 2020  

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   nursery

   A type of business and service created and designed to provide a variety of cultivar, plants, shrubs, seeds, vine, hedges and trees with management and employees with the accurate and specific ability, experience, knowledge, skills, training and qualifications to provide the service.

   The local nursery grows a variety of cultivar, plants, seeds, trees etc. which contributes to the growth of our food.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 9, 2020  

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   nursery

   A type of nationalized public preschool education service created and designed to provide a variety of services for children with the accurate and specific ability, experience, management, employees, knowledge, skills, training and qualifications to provide the service responsibly.

   The nursery employees are so kind and supportive, they really enjoy playing and spending time with the children.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'nursery' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2553

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'nursery' in Nouns Frequency: #1774

How to pronounce nursery?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say nursery in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nursery in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of nursery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of nursery in a Sentence

1. Phyllis McGinley:

   Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

2. Alan Watts:

   But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

3. Alyssa Russomondo:

   The first time he slept through the night, I just remember waking up on my own and going into his nursery to find him still asleep. It was a really weird feeling actually, like I had slept through something and why wasn’t he up yet?

4. Gilbert Keith Chesterton:

   Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

5. Neal Carter:

   It takes two years to build a nursery and another two years to get fruit, we're saying 20 acres of trees in the ground this spring will produce a small amount of fruit by fall 2016.

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