Crossword clues for nurture
nurture
- Encourage the development of
- Take under one's wing
- Development
- Foster Brooks
- Take care of
- Provide for
- Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community
- The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- Care for, protect
- Care for during upbringing
- Care for and protect
- Rear enthusiast to cross river followed by another
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nurture \Nur"ture\, n. [OE. norture, noriture, OF. norriture, norreture, F. nourriture, fr. L. nutritura a nursing, suckling. See Nourish.]
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The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.
--Milton. That which nourishes; food; diet.
--Spenser.
Nurture \Nur"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nurtured; p. pr. & vb. n. Nurturing.]
To feed; to nourish.
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To educate; to bring or train up.
He was nurtured where he had been born.
--Sir H. Wotton.Syn: To nourish; nurse; cherish; bring up; educate; tend.
Usage: To Nurture, Nourish, Cherish. Nourish denotes to supply with food, or cause to grow; as, to nourish a plant, to nourish rebellion. To nurture is to train up with a fostering care, like that of a mother; as, to nurture into strength; to nurture in sound principles. To cherish is to hold and treat as dear; as, to cherish hopes or affections.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "breeding, upbringing," from Old French norture, nourreture "food, nourishment; education, training," from Late Latin nutritia (see nursery).
"to feed or nourish," early 15c., from nurture (n.). Related: Nurtured; nurturing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of nourishing or nurse; tender care; education; training. 2 That which nourishes; food; diet. 3 The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature. vb. 1 To nourish or nurse. 2 (context figuratively by extension English) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
WordNet
n. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child [syn: raising, rearing]
raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, raising, rearing, upbringing]
v. help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents" [syn: foster]
bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear, raise, bring up, parent]
provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children" [syn: nourish, sustain]
Usage examples of "nurture".
Father and daughter would survive, albeit cut off forever from the land that nurtured us, whose glory ran in our veins like blood.
Men of courtly nurture, heirs to the polish of a far-reaching ancestry, here, with their dauntless hardihood, put to shame the boldest sons of toil.
In this delicate transition period from the womb to the world, babies are learning fundamental, if primitive, lessons about whether this new world is a responsive and nurturing one, about whether or not they have any effect on their environment, about how their needs are met.
A woman is biologically designed to give birth to children and then to breastfeed and nurture them.
Father Warmand and Father Radulf were the only canons who were free of duties here, or in the outlying parishes, that evening, and they were the first to arrive, followed by Lukin Dulpain, Master Peter the schoolmaster, Alvin Bisemare, and many other of the townsfolk, including, of course, Edwin Warrener, who brought what could only be described as a bouquet of conies and daffodils, all arranged in one great bunch, for Mistress Mayngod, towards whom, according to Lukin, he nurtured certain intentions.
I was feeling really special now, surrounded by nurturing, caring females who knew what was best for dopy little Johnny.
Who will eat of the fruit of the one durian which I have nurtured so carefully and fostered so fondly?
It was a substance not only of the mind and spirit but of the very texture of the body, so that it seemed they had been begot from acid and envenomed loins, and nurtured all their lives on nameless and abominable rations.
And we will nurture the hope of someday restoring our world by protecting Ephemera from the human heart.
Yarabokin floated foetal, swaddled in shock-gel, lungs full of fluid, umbilicalled to the ship, nurtured by it, talking to it, listening to it, feeling it all around her.
He has theorised that many women experience a true need to conceive and nurture infants, strong enough to drive them from the orgy.
Once they are free from their oppressive government, they reinvent Mexico as a nurturing landscape that obliterates the kleptocracy it actually is.
Philologists and lexicographers continued to nurture the Croatian language, as they have done up to the present.
The same fear, nurtured by the expressions of her tender affection, made him hesitate, ere he should endeavour to convince her that she had misallied herself to an impostor.
He can reflect and discover how he was probably offering solutions at a time when she was needing empathy and nurturing.