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What is "day nursery"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
day nursery
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Abandoning art after 1914, she established a number of clinics and a day nursery in east London during the war.
▪ One of a pair of walnut medicine cupboards in the lobby between the bathroom and day nursery.
▪ Some of our Clubs operate a day nursery for the 2-4 year olds.
▪ The fete is at Elim day nursery, in Alvanley Road.
▪ The girls shared the night nursery, and the day nursery adjoining.
▪ There is a day nursery for toddlers and the Pirates Club for children from four to eleven years.
WordNet
day nursery

n. a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work [syn: day care center]

Usage examples of "day nursery".

The Children's World Day Nursery was on a side street near the ocean front in Santa Monica.

The former day nursery, which Henry preferred to call his schoolroom, had a pair of desks and a bookcase in one corner, but playroom might have been a better term, for the rest of the long, lofty chamber was crowded with an assortment of expensive toys, including the latest mechanical windup trains and fire engines.

The room was a day nursery, fitted up with all the comfort wealth and tender love can provide.

Catherine was working as day nursery attendant at the Clifford Settlement House.

As soon as she graduated, she hurried to Dayton, where she took a job helping in a day nursery filled with children whose mothers were doing manual labor at the air base.