Definitions for nurture

nurture nur·ture

Spelling: [nur-cher]
IPA: /ˈnɜr tʃər/

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

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in nurture (enrrtuu).

Definitions for nurture

noun

  1. rearing, upbringing, training, education, or the like.
  2. development:
  3. something that nourishes; nourishment; food.

verb (used with object)

  1. to feed and protect:
  2. to support and encourage, as during the period of training or development; foster:
  3. to bring up; train; educate.

Origin of nurture

1300-50; (noun) Middle English norture Middle French, variant of nourriture Late Latin nūtrītūra a nourishing, equivalent to Latin nūtrīt(us) (past participle of nūtrīre to feed, Examples for nurture

A mother's tears, Gabriella, nurture great aspirations in a child.

Nature and nurture, genetics and family background all come into play.

But you can't expect anything of them; they've had no nurture.'

The literary world he helped found and nurture, and whose landscape he bestrode like the colossus he was—that world is gone.

But to return:—After marriage let us speak of the birth of children, and after their birth of their nurture and education.

Every soul may plant and nurture it in its own garden, in its own Eden.

Oddly you nurture it, it is part of you, and inescapably part of your past, present, and future.

For government is the nurture of man, and the government of good men is good, and of bad men bad.

For me, it bred the question of what nature and nurture can really do to someone.

Will asking for a barrel-aged Negroni help to nurture some European class?

Word Value for nurture
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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