Definitions for nursery

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nursery nurs·er·y

Spelling: [nur-suh-ree]

IPA: /ˈnɜr sə ri/

Nursery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in nursery (enrrsuy).

Definitions for nursery

noun

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. any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered:
5. any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something:

Origin of nursery

First recorded in 1350-1400, nursery is from the Middle English word norcery. See nurse, -ery

Examples for nursery

Lalkhan brought tea, and Tony went with him quite meekly to the nursery.

And from the time he was a babe in the nursery Coryston had fulfilled it to perfection.

Mark was in the nursery, as the children's room was still called.

The judge suggested they mind their nursery rhymes—Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

It was much nicer upstairs in the nursery with Mimi, the Angora cat.

It tracks light, noise, and temperature in the nursery, as well as baby's heart rate and sleep position.

After tea I slunk away to the nursery, and sat staring into the fire.

One song interweaves adult themes into nursery rhyme cadence.

In Britain, asked by nursery World, “How are you supporting working mothers?”

Mrs. Kouachi works at a nursery and has worn the veil since she made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.