Nursery Synonyms

nûr'sə-rē, nûrs'rē

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Synonyms for Nursery

preschool
A school for very young children, usually those three to five years of age
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baby's room
a child's room for a baby
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playroom
A recreation room, esp. one for children
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child's room
A place for children
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glasshouse
(UK military slang) A military prison.
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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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crèche (public nursery)
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plantation
A newly established settlement; a colony.
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Words Related to Nursery

tend
A place for plants
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greenhouse
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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treat
Someone's turn to treat
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see also
A place for plants
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school
The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
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heal
(Obsolete) health
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creche
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pre-schools
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playgroup
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day nursery
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pre-school
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creches
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nurseries
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the-nursery
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play group
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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.

  • You'd be in the nursery while I was in church?

  • 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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