Another word for nursery

nursery Synonyms

nursery

A place for children
child's room, playroom, nursery school, preschool, day care center, day nursery, crÃ¨che, kindergarten; see also school 1.
A place for plants
hothouse, hotbed, plantation; see greenhouse. care of, take charge of, look after, look to, see to; see also heal 1, tend 1, treat 3.

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"They are still short-handed in the nursery at church," she said.
You've had the nursery ready for him a long time.
He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it.
One of the girls who watched the babies in the nursery was ill that morning, so Carmen volunteered to help.
The brilliant success of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, in which Wagnerian technique is applied to the diatonic style of nursery songs with a humorous accuracy undreamed of by Wagner's imitators, points a moral which would have charmed Wagner himself; but until the revival of some rudiments of musical common sense becomes widespread, there is little prospect of the influence of Wagner's harmonic style being productive of anything better than nonsense.

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