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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
creche
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A big fan of the toys is Ted's young son, Sean, who attends Courtaulds' creche, in Coventry.
▪ Bed spaces will be provided for 365 students along with creche and laundry facilities.
▪ By the time I passed the old creche again it was getting darker and the insects were out.
▪ Children's play area and supervised creche are in addition to the usual facilities.
▪ Even so, some mammal parents still find it worth while to deposit their babies in a creche.
▪ If you are taking small children, lots of operators now offer special creche facilities.
▪ Many daytime activities are supported by a purpose built creche staffed by qualified people.
▪ Perhaps I should have asked them if they were intending to introduce creche facilities or anything to help the working mum?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creche

Creche \Cr[`e]che\ (kr[asl]sh), n. [F.]

  1. A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.

  2. a day-care center for young children.

  3. a three-dimensional model of the scene described in the Bible at the birth of Jesus Christ in a stable at Bethlehem, with Mary and Joseph near a manger in which a model of the infant Christ child is lain, and usually including figures of animals, shepherds, and the three wise men; -- also called a Nativity scene. The figures in the scene are typically made as individual statues or figurines. Smaller models are displayed in homes and other indoor locations during the Christmans season, and larger models, often life-size, may be displayed out of doors.

  4. (Biol.) a nest where the young of several animals are cared for in a communal fashion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
creche

"Christmas manger scene," 1792, from French crèche, from Old French cresche (13c.) "crib, manger, stall," ultimately from Frankish or some other Germanic source; compare Old High German kripja, Old English cribb (see crib). Also "a public nursery for infants where they are cared for while their mothers are at work" (1854).

Wiktionary
creche

n. (alternative form of crèche English)

WordNet
creche
  1. n. a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for [syn: foundling hospital]

  2. a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem

Wikipedia
Crèche

Crèche or creche may refer to:

  • Day care center, an organization of adults who take care of children in place of their parents
  • Nativity scene, a group of figures arranged to represent the birth of Jesus Christ
  • Crèche (zoology), animals taking care of young that are not their own
Crèche (zoology)

The crèche (from French) in zoology refers to care of another's offspring, for instance in a colony. This term is generally used in the study of bird colonies. Many penguins form crèches, in addition to many other birds such as the Canada goose, common eider and common shelduck.

Among reptiles, spectacled caiman also raise their young in crèches, one female taking care of her own as well as several others' offspring.

Lions are another notable species to form crèches. Females within a pride will provide mutual protection and will even nurse each other's cubs. However, studies have shown that cubs raised in crèches tend to have lower feeding-rates than if they were raised by one mother. This indicates that in lions, the crèche is a defensive formation.

Creche (disambiguation)

Usage examples of "creche".

Q Factor, though high, is not of any such extraordinary highness as to justify an attempt at psychosurgery to correct the aberration, it is therefore recommended that subject be released from the Communipath Creche on her own recognizance after suitable indoctrination erasure.

Thirty or so five-year-olds bounced around the free fall gym like a barrage of demented ping pong balls when their creche mother, a plump pleasant downsider woman they called Mama Nilla, assisted by a couple of quaddie teenage girls, first let them out of their reading class.

One dream kept recurring, the time when I was three years old in the creche kitchen on Pyrene, and I spilled boiling water on my hands.

I was beginning to feel that the Pyrene creche setup made more sense than all this family intensity, and I was tempted to say so.

A guardia marshal stood by the ticket booth, both to keep order and to make sure no under-five summerlings from town creches sneaked in without notes from their clan mothers.

Creche mob of droolies were a touch outside the normal run: old as dry beavers, the lot of them.

His body floats above the open creche, his flailing hands can get no grip.

Baird had been a half-grown kid fresh out of House Arvid Creche, pressed into duty only because the invading Xer would have shot him oh sight simply for being a Warlord.

Rimmer suggested they might offer it a number of concessions, including mutant creche facilities, a chameleonic lifeform helpline and free travel passes for all slimebeasts.

Undoubtedly, considering her dollmaking, she had been prevailed upon to lend her talent to the making of the creche.

It was necessary for her to have officer's rank in order to qualify for one of the Buenaventura cottages, and to enable Nicholas to attend the military creche and nursery school.

He did not remember the early days in the government creche, but the personality scanner had reported almost at once that Diskan Fentress was not Service material.

Like this bit about the freedom of religion not meaning the town can't put up a creche at Christmas, the speech not including fornicating in the streets, assembly not including rioting, property subject to legal usage, and trial not meaning damnfool stuff like throwing anyone who knows anything off a jury, things like that.

In their acceleration couches/resurrection creches, Father Captain de Soya, Sergeant Gregorius, and Corporal Kee lie dead, their shredded bodies being pulverized a second time because the ship automatically conserves energy by not initializing internal fields until resurrection is well under way.

All three of the men avert their eyes as she leaves her creche and kicks off for the shower/wardrobe cubby, but there are enough reflective surfaces in Raphael's crowded command bubble for each of them to catch a glimpse of the small woman's firm body, her pale skin, and the livid cruciform between her small breasts.