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View synonyms for day nursery

day nursery

noun

  1. a nursery for the care of small children during the day, especially while their parents are at work.


day nursery

noun

  1. social welfare an establishment offering daycare to preschool children, enabling their parents to work full time or have extended relief if child care is a problem Also called (US, Canadian, Austral, and NZ)daycare centre
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of day nursery1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

The day-nursery, afterward the school-room, was over the dining-room, and the bedrooms were at the back of the house.

In the children's day-nursery there is the old shop-damaged couch from the Tottenham Court Road cellar.

Certainly the day-nursery was the best room in the tall thin house, just as the morning-room was the worst.

The staircase that led up to the day-nursery was light and cheerful owing to the skylight in the roof.

Stella at once went to the piano in the day-nursery and began to play her most unmelodious tune.

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