nursery school
Americannoun
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nursery schools
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of nursery school
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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She worried about other potential costs, too: the hospital bill, daycare, nursery school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Schoolchildren in the town were told to commute in a group or use school buses, while nursery school preschool children refrained from playing outside.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Funding was secured in 2023 to build a "like-for-like" replacement school on the Isle of Mull to replace the dilapidated Tobermory High School, which also houses a primary and nursery school.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025
Ms Gormley said the nursery school had used funding to pay for speech and language therapy and it had made "a massive difference".
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024
Mary’s sister Emily Winston had worked with Ophelia Taylor in the same nursery school during the war, before Taylor headed off to the Hampton Institute training program.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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