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nursery
CEFRB1
/ˈnɜːsəɹi/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A place where young children are cared for or taught.
- 02
noun
A place where young plants are grown.
Examples
Her youngest child is at nursery now.
It looks like Yokkun's dad ran off with his nursery school teacher.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 2
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.
The first year of pre-school.
More examples
In contextThe youngest child spent every morning at a nursery.
Commerce is the nursery of seamen.
I lou'd her moſt, and thought to ſet my reſt / On her kind nurcery, [...]
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Origin
noun
From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin nūtrīcia (“wet nurse”), from Latin nūtrīcius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from nūtriō (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse + -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).