Definitions for creche

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creche crèche

Spelling: [kresh, kreysh; French kresh]

IPA: /krɛʃ, kreɪʃ; French krɛʃ/

Creche is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in creche (cceehr).

Definitions for creche

noun

1. a small or large modeled representation or tableau of Mary, Joseph, and others around the crib of Jesus in the stable at Bethlehem, as is displayed in homes or erected for exhibition in a community at Christmas season.
2. a home for foundlings.
3. British. a day-care center; day nursery.
4. Animal Behavior. an assemblage of dependent young that are cared for communally.

Origin of creche

1785-95; French, Old French Frankish *kripja crib

Examples for creche

In the lowest vaults of the creche, Merrick showed the Prophet the infants.

Every human being within the creche died so, but there was still life.

A special nursery, the "creche," was built for their children.

What they really need is a combination palace, houseboat, sanatorium, and creche.

How am I supposed to protect the creche from the likes of Erikson?

"But the creche is here, and I am here to guard it as my forefathers did," Merrick said.

So soon as they had left the creche he began to speak of the horror the babies in their incubating cases had caused him.

Occasionally, a door opened almost soundlessly, and a white-clad figure would check the graph tapes on the creche's meters.

Third, the artificial persons that streamed from the creche were blasphemy.

There are almost a thousand androids in the creche as of this morning.