Nursery
['nɜːs(ə)rɪ] or ['nɝsəri]
Definition
(n.) The act of nursing.
(n.) The place where nursing is carried on
(n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
(n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
(n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
(n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
(n.) That which is nursed.
Edited by Aaron
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN: seminary, plantation, school
ANT:World, life, education, profession
Checker: Phyllis
Examples
- I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We are building a nursery out of your room, I believe. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Let me go into the nursery! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Such thoughts do not find their appropriate expression in the emotions of the nursery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Rawdon bought the boy plenty of picture-books and crammed his nursery with toys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She came into the nursery one evening just after I had listened to Georgette's lisped and broken prayer, and had put her to bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He shan't bother you much; at home he will be away from you in the nursery, and he shall go outside on the coach with me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I wonder what room they will make into the nursery? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- How did you manage, Miss Hale, without a nursery? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Yes, I said, I am a rising character: once an old lady's companionthen a nursery-governess, now a school-teacher. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What I should like best, said Rebecca, would be to go to the nursery and see your dear little children. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Except the Sucklings and Bragges, there is not such another nursery establishment, so liberal and elegant, in all Mrs. Elton's acquaintance. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Let him stay here in the nursery, and Briggs can make him a black frock. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But, by degrees she was led on to confess that she would like to have for the inexhaustible baby such a nursery as never was seen. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To which the marble-hearted parent rejoined that there was a--sort of a kind of a--nursery, and it might be 'made to do'. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and then of the female. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I suppose, sister, you will put the child in the little white attic, near the old nurseries. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth, are provided with grave and learned professors, and their several deputies. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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