nursery

Meaning

1. A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
2. A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
3. A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
4. A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
5. A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
6. A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
7. A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
8. Something which educates and nurtures.
9. Short for nursery cannon (“a carom shot involving balls that are very close together”).
10. (obsolete) Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
11. (obsolete) The act of nursing or rearing.

Hyphenated as

nurs‧e‧ry

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnɜːsəɹi/

Etymology

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 .