noun, adjective
noun (plural nurseries)
1 = DAYNURSERY
2 = NURSERYSCHOOL:
Her youngest child is at nursery now.
3 (AmE or old-fashioned) a room in a house where a baby sleeps
4 (old-fashioned) a room in a house where young children can play
5 a place where young plants and trees are grown for sale or for planting somewhere else
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (BrE) connected with the education of children from 2 to 5 years old:
nursery education * a nursery teacher
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for nursery is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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