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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.
4.
5.
any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something: Slums are nurseries for young criminals.
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Nursery
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World English Dictionary
| nursery (ˈnɜːsrɪ) | |
| —n , pl -ries | |
| 1. | a. a room in a house set apart for use by children |
| b. (as modifier): nursery wallpaper | |
| 2. | a place where plants, young trees, etc, are grown commercially |
| 3. | an establishment providing residential or day care for babies and very young children; crèche |
| 4. | short for nursery school |
| 5. | anywhere serving to foster or nourish new ideas, etc |
| 6. | billiards Also called: nursery cannon |
| a. a series of cannons with the three balls adjacent to a cushion, esp near a corner pocket | |
| b. a cannon in such a series | |
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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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