nurture
to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.
to support and encourage, as during the period of training or development; foster: to nurture promising musicians.
rearing, upbringing, training, education, or the like.
development: the nurture of young artists.
something that nourishes; nourishment; food.
Origin of nurture
1synonym study For nurture
Other words from nurture
- nur·tur·a·ble, adjective
- nur·ture·less, adjective
- nur·tur·er, noun
- un·nur·tured, adjective
- well-nur·tured, adjective
Words Nearby nurture
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How to use nurture in a sentence
Part of what makes individuals unique are the combinations of genes and environmental influences that shape them — nature and nurture.
I suggest dropping these folks into an email nurture campaign so that they are being engaged in an automated way until their behavior indicates that they are ready to be contacted by sales.
SMX Overtime: Eternal testing, the key to Facebook Ads success | Amy Bishop | December 21, 2020 | Search Engine LandLeading athletes benefit from a complex, and interrelated, mixture of nature and nurture.
Dissecting athletic greatness: Nature, nurture, lucky breaks and a ‘quiet eye’ | Liz Robbins | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostAs for the second question on nature versus nurture, this study can’t answer it.
Instead of jumping into a seemingly endless academic scrum over “nature versus nurture,” they studied how children actually develop over years and decades.
‘The Origins of You’ explores how kids develop into their adult selves | Bruce Bower | September 16, 2020 | Science News
Oddly you nurture it, it is part of you, and inescapably part of your past, present, and future.
Will asking for a barrel-aged Negroni help to nurture some European class?
Nature and nurture, genetics and family background all come into play.
For me, it bred the question of what nature and nurture can really do to someone.
‘Orange Is the New Black’ Star Uzo Aduba on Her Journey From Track Phenom to Crazy Eyes | Marlow Stern | June 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe two sides are not likely to reach agreement on this nature/nurture debate anytime soon.
They troubled themselves with no theories of education, but mingled gentle nurture with “wholesome neglect.”
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarAnxious, to excess, to bring them up in orthodox nurture and admonition: and this is how they reward me, Herr Feldzeugmeister!
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.) | Thomas CarlyleIn making such a sacrifice they are but repaying the debt of nurture.
American Sketches | Charles WhibleySane, honorable evangelism never excludes Christian nurture any more than the sunlight obviates the necessity of soil cultivation.
The United Seas | Robert W. RogersIf he does break silence it will probably be in terms of the religious cult that has given him nurture.
The Minister and the Boy | Allan Hoben
British Dictionary definitions for nurture
/ (ˈnɜːtʃə) /
the act or process of promoting the development, etc, of a child
something that nourishes
biology the environmental factors that partly determine the structure of an organism: See also nature (def. 12)
to feed or support
to educate or train
Origin of nurture
1Derived forms of nurture
- nurturable, adjective
- nurturer, noun
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