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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

/ ˈ²Ôɜ˲õ°ùɪ /

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
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˜yÐÄvlog 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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Example Sentences

Charities and childcare nurseries say they are furious that they face increases in their National Insurance bills, but are also powerless to raise their incomes.

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For instance, even before construction began in 2022, the project built a nursery and sent horticulturists combing the hills around the site to collect about 1 million seeds from around 30 native plant species.

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Seagrasses provide shelters, nurseries, and feeding grounds for thousands of species, including endangered animals such as dugongs, stalked jellyfish and smalltooth sawfish.

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It has been predicted the number of children in state nurseries and primary schools would fall by 4.5% over the next four years, but it varies across England.

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Mary Lou Heard owned a popular Westminster nursery, Heard’s Country Gardens, that specialized in unusual cottage garden plants.

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