Nursery synonyms

nûr'sə-rē, nûrs'rē

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tend (related)
A place for plants
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greenhouse (related)
A building made mainly of glass, in which the temperature and humidity can be regulated for the cultivation of delicate or out-of-season plants
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child's room
A place for children
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baby's room
a child's room for a baby
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playgroups (related)
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preschool
A school for very young children, usually those three to five years of age
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treat (related)
Someone's turn to treat
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glasshouse
(UK military slang) A military prison.
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day nursery
A facility for the supervision of preschool children, especially during the hours that their parents are at work.
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crèche (public nursery)
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see also (related)
A place for plants
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day-care-center
A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work. Generally more entertaining and less educational than a preschool, but with longer hours of operation.
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crèche
A place for children
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hothouse
A heated greenhouse for plants that require an even, relatively warm temperature.
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hotbed
(By extension) an environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable
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plantation
A newly established settlement; a colony.
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school (related)
The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
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heal (related)
(Obsolete) health
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primary-school (related)
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playroom
A room designed or set aside for recreation or playing.
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kindergarten
A school or class for young children, usually four to six years old, that prepares them for first grade and that develops basic skills and social behavior by games, exercises, music, simple handicrafts, etc.
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playgroup (related)
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the-nursery (related)
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pre-school (related)
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creche (related)
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creches (related)
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nurseries (related)
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play group (related)
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pre-schools (related)
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Find another word for nursery. In this page you can discover 30 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for nursery, like: tend, greenhouse, nursery-school, child's room, baby's room, playgroups, preschool, treat, glasshouse, day nursery and crèche (public nursery).
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Nursery Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • Mrs. Keller and I watched the nursery comedy from the door.

  • 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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