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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nursery
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a nursery school (=for children under 5)
day nursery
nursery nurse
nursery rhyme
nursery school
nursery slope
nursery/pre-school education (=for children aged under 5)
▪ The funding will provide nursery education for all four-year-olds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
▪ If you have trouble in finding exactly the same varieties, you local nursery should be able to suggest some good alternatives.
▪ Most children attend only part-time - morning or afternoon. Local authority nurseries charge, nursery classes do not.
▪ After attending a local nursery school, some children had been able to write their own names.
▪ Of the 3.5 million under fives in this country, only 1% can be placed in local authority nurseries.
old
▪ The old nursery became the parents' bedroom, with a dressing room for Corinne, and the children resented it.
private
▪ Enquiries are being made with regard to the setting up of a private nursery. 2.
▪ Joanne was 4 years old and attended a private nursery in a private housing estate within a large city.
■ NOUN
class
▪ Local authority nurseries charge, nursery classes do not.
▪ There were teams for the tuberculosis clinics, the general dispensaries, the homes for abandoned children, nursery classes and creches.
▪ In the nursery class, a semi-structured interview schedule was used, with ample opportunity for expanding answers.
▪ For the nursery class, the researcher studied and commented on the data and then discussed what emerged with the staff.
▪ He then takes Keith to his morning nursery class.
▪ Almost half were in nursery classes in school.
▪ A meeting of the education committee decided that the nursery classes should be transferred to the School Annexe. 5.
▪ Only the children in the school nursery class and the Village Hall nursery group will be invited.
day
▪ One of a pair of walnut medicine cupboards in the lobby between the bathroom and day nursery.
▪ There is a day nursery for toddlers and the Pirates Club for children from four to eleven years.
▪ Some of our Clubs operate a day nursery for the 2-4 year olds.
▪ Abandoning art after 1914, she established a number of clinics and a day nursery in east London during the war.
▪ Feminist arguments in favour of day nurseries were also conspicuously absent.
▪ Thus state day nurseries became confined very largely to the children of poor and needy parents, often single parents.
▪ The girls shared the night nursery, and the day nursery adjoining.
▪ The fete is at Elim day nursery, in Alvanley Road.
education
▪ Is he further aware that a problem exists in finding suitable financial resources for nursery education?
▪ Are these the partnership circumstances in which we want children to receive nursery education?
▪ First, a nursery education for all three and four year olds whose parents wish by the year 2000.
▪ Must they wait until they are four, and then go into part-time nursery education?
nurse
▪ These take children only from the age of 3, and are staffed not by nursery nurses but by trained teachers.
▪ How nursery nurses and other students choose to use this knowledge is another matter entirely.
▪ We share the annexe base with nursery nurse students and staff.
▪ There are three full-time workers -a counsellor, a teacher, and a nursery nurse.
▪ He said Darlington College of Technology already provided one of the best nursery nurse courses in the country.
▪ A Labour Government would help nursery nurses progress after qualifying.
place
▪ Recent reports have shown the North leads the country in provision of nursery places.
▪ Five other locations throughout County Durham are also to be considered for extra nursery places.
▪ Labour planned to ensure a nursery place was available for every three and four-year-old whose parents wanted it.
▪ Mr Fallon said the Tories were committed to encourage the creation of nursery places but not just through local authorities.
▪ The cost of a childminder averages £90 a week, with a nursery place around £110.
▪ We will continue to encourage the creation of nursery places.
provision
▪ A petition signed by 2,500 people calling for better nursery provision was presented to County Hall in Durham.
▪ Such families would therefore have no legitimate claim to nursery provisions and other facilities.
▪ They should show up Tory authorities for not providing nursery provision.
▪ LEAs were busily extending nursery provision and running courses and projects.
▪ Best workplace nursery provision is to be found in the public sector - local authorities, hospitals and colleges.
rhyme
▪ Nursery rhymes A good nursery rhyme idea is Humpty Dumpty.
▪ They listen to stories, memorize nursery rhymes, look at picture books and gain other experiences that prepare them to read.
▪ More than 40 children aged between three and five turned up as their favourite nursery rhyme or story book characters.
▪ Among the lessons: Know your colors, shapes and nursery rhymes.
▪ He was, incidentally, the only applicant who hadn't named the drink St Clements, from the nursery rhyme.
▪ Quaint nursery rhymes defiled by crashing noise nightmares?
▪ This is a good idea for a nursery rhyme party where the eggs can represent Humpty Dumpty.
▪ The first team chooses a nursery rhyme and they all sing it together.
school
▪ Eighty pupils from Kirkby Malham Primary School have planted ash seedlings which they reared themselves in the school nursery.
▪ Only the children in the school nursery class and the Village Hall nursery group will be invited.
slope
▪ The nursery slope can be terrifying to the person on skis for the first time, and yet boring to the expert.
▪ But Ilkley Moor, however exhilarating for us townies, forms only the nursery slopes of the Yorkshire Dales.
teacher
▪ He is always pleased to see his nursery teacher but is terrified that she will think he is a naughty boy.
▪ In one instance a nursery teacher felt that she should praise a little boy every time he spoke to her.
unit
▪ Keith Mitchell, director of education, has recommended consideration be given to the new nursery units at the meeting.
▪ A nursery unit was built in 1977 and has two teachers.
workplace
▪ In addition, we have relieved employees from paying income tax on the benefit of workplace nurseries.
▪ The first idea she came up with was managing workplace nurseries for companies.
▪ In fact workplace nurseries are not suitable for most employers unless they employ a large number of staff in one location.
▪ The Prime Minister was quick to claim the credit for abolishing the tax on workplace nurseries.
▪ Then, bizarrely, he announced that the perk of a workplace nursery would no longer be taxable.
▪ This Government in particular took away tax relief on workplace nurseries.
▪ Best workplace nursery provision is to be found in the public sector - local authorities, hospitals and colleges.
■ VERB
open
▪ He opened his own nursery on a spot surrounded by the infant Ouse.
▪ Some camps have recently opened nurseries for women who wish to keep their children with them.
▪ David has opened a nursery at Misarden, specialising in old fashioned herbaceous plants and shrubs.
▪ Since 1986, ten councils have opened nurseries for their staff.
provide
▪ To back this up we provide subsidised nurseries and a dependent care allowance to those whose hours change at short notice.
▪ Looking like a Legoland space station, Ikea also provides supervised nurseries, free parking, restaurants and endless loos.
▪ They should show up Tory authorities for not providing nursery provision.
▪ Female wasps of this species dig burrows in the sand, to provide a nursery for their offspring.
▪ On Wednesday the county schools subcommittee will be recommended to consider providing 52 nursery places in an extension at Springfield Primary School.
run
▪ I was ready to run down to the nursery.
▪ There he had an official residence, but he continued to run his Whitechapel nursery, with another in London Fields.
▪ Another thing, she didn't feel she was good any more at running the nursery school.
▪ An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery.
set
▪ What they needed, they decided, was to set up a nursery themselves to gain a corporate reputation.
▪ Two years later he returned home to help his father set up a nursery, but the venture was unsuccessful.
▪ They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome.
▪ The breakfast set in the nursery lobby left-hand cupboard was donated by Miss Henrietta Wedgwood.
start
▪ And we've helped people to start their own tree nurseries and grow their own trees for firewood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the nursery she could do what she wanted when she wanted.
▪ It was a room that might, in time, become-a nursery.
▪ Such families would therefore have no legitimate claim to nursery provisions and other facilities.
▪ There was the nursery, the school-room, and the drawing-room: there were three lots.
▪ They need constant attention, constant vigilance, like a nursery of children.
▪ This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nursery

Nursery \Nurs"er*y\, n.; pl. Nurseries. [Cf. F. nourricerie.]

  1. The act of nursing. [Obs.] ``Her kind nursery.''
    --Shak.

  2. The place where nursing is carried on; as:

    1. The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.

    2. A place where young of any species, plant or animal, are nourished preparatory to transfer elsewhere; especially a place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.

    3. The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. ``Fair Padua, nursery of arts.''
      --Shak.

      Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven.
      --J. M. Mason.

    4. That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.

  3. That which is nursed. [R.]
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nursery

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.

Wiktionary
nursery

n. 1 (lb en obsolete) The act of nursing. 2 (lb en heading) ''A place where nursing is carried on.'' 3 # A room or area in a household set apart for the care of children; specifically in European countries. 4 # A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting; a plantation of young trees. 5 # The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. 6 # A nursery school. 7 That which forms and educates. 8 (lb en rare) That which is nursed.

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WordNet
nursery

  1. n. a child's room for a baby [syn: baby's room]

  2. a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions [syn: greenhouse, glasshouse]

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Wikipedia
Nursery

Nursery may refer to:

Nursery (room)

A nursery is usually, in American connotations, a bedroom within a house or other dwelling set aside for an infant or toddler. A typical nursery would contain a crib (or similar type of bed), a table or platform for the purpose of changing diapers (also known as a changing table), as well as various items required for the care of the child (such as baby powder and medicine). A nursery is generally designated for the smallest bedroom in the house, as a baby requires very little space until at least walking age; the premise being that the room is used almost exclusively for sleep. However, the room in many cases could remain the bedroom of the child well into his or her teenage years, or until a younger sibling is born, and the parents decide to move the older child into another larger bedroom, if one should be available.

In Victorian and Edwardian times, for the wealthy and mid-tier classes, a nursery was a suite of rooms at the top of a house, including the night nursery, where the children slept, and a day nursery, where they ate and played, or a combination thereof. The nursery suite would include some bathroom facilities and possibly a small kitchen. The nurse (nanny) and nursemaid (assistant) slept in the suite too, to be within earshot of the sleeping children. The schoolroom might also be adjacent, but the governess, whose job it was to teach the children, would not be part of the nursery; she would have her own bedroom, possibly in another wing. Fictional portrayals of nurseries abound, for example in the writings of Kipling and E. Nesbit; perhaps the most famous nursery is that in Mary Poppins, or the nursery in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and the nursery in Jim Henson's Muppet Babies.

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Usage examples of "nursery".

Jane hurried after Amy into the airy white-and-blue-papered room they had shared since they were old enough to abandon the nursery.

A nursery screamer where dialectics ruled: Mannerless, graceless, laughterless, unlike Herself in all, yet with such power to strike, That she the various features she could scan Dared not to sum, though seeing: and befooled By power which beamed omnipotent, she bowed, Subservient as roused echo round his guns.

Recently, one bonder in a nursery on the far side of Kraickow had died that way.

The man who had sent the book had added a second verse to the nursery rhyme on the bookmarked page.

I am sure He likes His little ones to tell their fancies in the dimmits about the nursery fire.

At Valencay, his stunningly beautiful Renaissance chateau, he played the provincial squire, installed as mayor and experimenting with new varieties of escarole and carrot and tending his nursery of Scotch pines.

Here is a cottage nursery rhyme, genuinely silly:-- Right round my garden There I found a farden, Gave it to my mother To buy a little brother, Brother was so cross Sat him on a horse, Horse was so randy Gave him some brandy, Brandy was so strong Put him in the pond, Pond was so deep Put him in the cradle and rocked him off to sleep.

When the State takes care of all the children in government nurseries, and the mayor has taken her place in the United States Senate, her husband, if he has become sufficiently reformed and feminized, may go to the House, and the reunited family of two, clubbing their salaries, can live in great comfort.

The best-beloved tall tales swapped at night in the nursery revolved around the legendary Fewmets Ferkkin, who had tried to breed a totally clean dragon, a dragon that took in at one end but never gave out at the other.

If we can knock out the nurseries and damage as little as fifty percent of the Nest, we can make Gae safe for human habitation again.

He played in the living room until around 5:30, then Gow took him back upstairs to the nursery, which, as you approach the house, was the room in the far left rear of the second floor.

At around the same time, Gow went back to the nursery to check on Charlie.

Perhaps Colonel Lindbergh had him, she suggested, then went into the nursery while Gow ran downstairs to the library.

Heather clung to the rocks, and whitebark pines growing low to the earth provided nurseries for ironweed and mistletoe.

His gasps became cries, but the lullaby drowned them out, matting his manhood with its nursery lilt.