nurs|er|y

nurs|er|y
nurs|er|y «NURS uhr ee, NURS ree», noun, plural -er|ies.
1. a room set apart for the use of the small children and babies of the household: »

What I should like best…would be to go to the nursery, and see your dear little children (Thackeray).

2. a piece of ground or place where young trees and plants are raised for transplanting or sale.
3. Figurative. a place or condition that helps something to grow and develop: »

Slums are often nurseries of disease. Family life, the first and last nursery of the higher sympathies (H. Drummond).

4. the brood or chambers in which larval, social insects attain maturity.
5. = nursery school. (Cf. ↑nursery school)
6. Obsolete. upbringing.

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