nursery.
A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
Meaning & usage
A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on. Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.
A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on. An institution for small children who not yet have begun primary school during daytime (when their parents work); a daycare centre.
A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on. The first year of pre-school.
A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).
A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. A place where young shrubs, trees, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting, or (more generally) made available for public sale, a garden centre; also (obsolete) a plantation of young trees.
A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. A club or team for developing the skills of young players.
Something which educates and nurtures.
Commerce is the nursery of seamen.
Ellipsis of nursery cannon (“a carom shot involving balls that are very close together”).
Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
The act of nursing or rearing.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin nūtrīcia (“wet nurse”), from Latin nūtrīcius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from nūtriō (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse + -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).
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