nursery
pronunciation
How to pronounce nursery in British English:
UK [ˈnɜːsəri]
How to pronounce nursery in American English:
US [ˈnɜːrsəri]
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- Noun:
- a child's room for a baby
- a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions
Word Origin
- nursery (n.)
- c. 1400, "breeding, nursing," from Old French norture, norreture "food, nourishment; education, training," from Late Latin nutritia "a nursing, suckling," from Latin nutrire "to nourish, suckle" (see nourish). Meaning "place or room for infants and young children and their nurse" is from c. 1300. As a type of school, 1580s. Horticultural sense is from 1560s. Nursery rhyme is from 1832.
Example
- 1. Lily , who is three-and-a-half , loves her nursery school in queens .
- 2. The blaze started in a warehouse next to the nursery , which had only one working exit and no windows .
- 3. If the tarantula nebula is a stellar nursery , messier 9 is a retirement home .
- 4. I began spending hours at the local nursery , studying and choosing seeds and plants .
- 5. The doctors clean the baby , wrap her in a blanket , and take her to the nursery , where families usually gather to see their child for the first time .