Nurture
['nɜːtʃə] or ['nɝtʃɚ]
Definition
(n.) The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.
(n.) That which nourishes; food; diet.
(v. t.) To feed; to nourish.
(v. t.) To educate; to bring or train up.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Nourishment, food, diet.[2]. Training, education, instruction, discipline, tuition, schooling, breeding.
v. a. [1]. Feed, nourish.[2]. Train, educate, instruct, school, rear, breed, discipline, bring up.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See NOURISH]
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Definition
n. act of nursing or nourishing: nourishment: education: instruction.—v.t. to nourish: to bring up: to educate.—n. Nurt′urer.
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Examples
- Politics would be like education--an effort to develop, train and nurture men's impulses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Then, if women are to have the same duties as men, they must have the same nurture and education? Plato. The Republic.
- Absorption, engrossment, full concern with subject matter for its own sake, nurture it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Moan for your nurture of him, moan for your corruption of him, moan for your loss of him, moan for mine! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The presence of dependent and learning beings is a stimulus to nurture and affection. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Caroline's youth could now be of some avail to her, and so could her mother's nurture. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Even in present-day societies, it furnishes the basic nurture of even the most insistently schooled youth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- While he was yet undecided, she had quitted England; the news of his marriage reached her, and her hopes, poorly nurtured blossoms, withered and fell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What was there in her soul for James Harthouse to destroy, which Thomas Gradgrind had nurtured there in its state of innocence! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What you have never nurtured in me, you have never nurtured in yourself; but O! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had been nurtured upon imperialist propaganda. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not dead in the first hours of her life, as my cruel sister told me, but sternly nurtured by her, after she had renounced me and my name! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What we have more especially to indicate is how the social medium nurtures its immature members. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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