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Nursery synonyms
nûr'sə-rē, nûrs'rē
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playroom
A recreation room, esp. one for children
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  1. A recreation room, esp. one for children
  2. A room designed or set aside for recreation or playing.
nursery-school
A school where pre-school children play and learn at the same time.
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  1. A school where pre-school children play and learn at the same time.
  2. A school for children, usually between the ages of three and five, who are not old enough to attend kindergarten.
  3. Preschool
preschool
A school for very young children, usually those three to five years of age
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  1. A school for very young children, usually those three to five years of age
  2. A school for children who are not old enough to attend kindergarten; a nursery school.
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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  1. 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.
day nursery
A facility for the supervision of preschool children, especially during the hours that their parents are at work.
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  1. A facility for the supervision of preschool children, especially during the hours that their parents are at work.
  2. A nursery school for the daytime care and training of preschool children, as of working parents
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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  1. 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.
  2. A program or class for four-year-old to six-year-old children that serves as an introduction to school.
hothouse
A heated greenhouse for plants that require an even, relatively warm temperature.
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  1. A heated greenhouse for plants that require an even, relatively warm temperature.
  2. An environment conducive to vigorous growth or development; a hotbed:
  3. A building made mainly of glass, artificially heated for growing plants; greenhouse
hotbed
Any place that fosters rapid growth or extensive activity
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  1. Any place that fosters rapid growth or extensive activity
  2. An environment conducive to vigorous growth or development, especially of something undesirable:
  3. A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure; used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants. A hotbed works as a miniature hothouse, i.e. greenhouse.
plantation
An area growing cultivated crops
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  1. An area growing cultivated crops
  2. A group of cultivated trees or plants.
  3. A newly established settlement; a colony.
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    Find another word for nursery. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for nursery, like: child's room, playroom, nursery-school, preschool, day-care-center, day nursery, crèche, kindergarten, hothouse, hotbed and plantation.

    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.

    • 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.

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

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