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noun, plural -er·ies.
1.
a room or place set apart for young children.
2.
a nursery school or day nursery.
3.
a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting, for sale, or for experimental study.
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5.
any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something: Slums are nurseries for young criminals.
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is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Word Origin & History
nursery
c.1400, "breeding, nursing," from O.Fr. norture, from L.L. nutritia "a nursing, suckling," from L. nutrire "to nourish, suckle." Meaning "place or room for infants and young children and their nurse" is from 1499. As a type of school, 1581. Nursery rhyme is from 1832. Horticultural sense is from 1565.
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