nursery

Meaning

1. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
2. (British, UK, countable, uncountable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
3. (Philippines, countable, uncountable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
4. (also, countable, figuratively) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
5. (also, countable, figuratively, uncountable) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
6. (also, countable, figuratively, uncountable) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
7. (also, countable, figuratively, uncountable) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
8. (countable) Something which educates and nurtures.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis) Ellipsis of nursery cannon (“a carom shot involving balls that are very close together”).
10. (countable, obsolete, rare) Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
11. (obsolete, uncountable) The act of nursing or rearing.

Synonyms

seedbed

preschool

children’s room

kindergarten

greenhouse

seed-plot

glasshouse

child’s room

nursery garden

nursery school

farm

conservatory

baby’s room

creche

seed-bed

plot

breeding ground

day nursery

breeding place

hotbed

kindergarten

baby farm

kindergarden

bed

🛏️

botanical garden

cold frame

day care center

day school

garden

incubator

infant school

orphanage

playroom

seminary

source

spawn

plant nursery

child-care centre

public nursery

plant-school

seedling nursery

children's room

Translations

guardería

pépinière

Kinderzimmer

φυτώριο

stanza dei bambini

Baumschule

crèche

βρεφοκομείο

asilo

vivaio

Kindergarten

Kinderkrippe

berçário

Gärtnerei

παιδοκομείο

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnɜːsəɹi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: noricerie

Cognate with French: nourrice

In summary

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’).

Sentences

A Gurdwara may also have a library , nursery , and classroom .