nursery
a room or place set apart for young children.
a nursery school or day nursery.
a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting, for sale, or for experimental study.
any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered: The art institute has been the nursery of much great painting.
any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something: Slums are nurseries for young criminals.
Origin of nursery
1Other words from nursery
- pre·nurs·er·y, adjective, noun, plural pre·nurs·er·ies.
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How to use nursery in a sentence
The old jewelry manufacturer, the flower nurseries, and all the other businesses in Newark that shut down, could not.
They came from Halka Nurseries in New Jersey, and you can see them across the river from the, yes, FDR Drive in Manhattan.
Inside New York’s New Four Freedoms Park: A Private Tour | Lynn Sherr | September 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe built so many parks that Midwestern nurseries ran out of trees.
Whatever the English may say, the universities of old Scotland are the nurseries of learned and useful citizens.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellHe dwelt often on the fisheries, as nurseries for British seamen, and the colonial trade, as furnishing them employment.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster | Daniel Webster
The sheep would come running into the seal nurseries looking for their lambs when they heard a pup seal crying.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-WheelerIn European nurseries the list of pears propagated on quince roots is much larger.
Dwarf Fruit Trees | F. A. WaughThe coffee plants are raised in nurseries and afterwards transplanted to the cafetales or coffee plantations.
Guatemala, the country of the future | Charles M. Pepper
British Dictionary definitions for nursery
/ (ˈnɜːsrɪ) /
a room in a house set apart for use by children
(as modifier): nursery wallpaper
a place where plants, young trees, etc, are grown commercially
an establishment providing residential or day care for babies and very young children; crèche
short for nursery school
anywhere serving to foster or nourish new ideas, etc
Also called: nursery cannon billiards
a series of cannons with the three balls adjacent to a cushion, esp near a corner pocket
a cannon in such a series
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