nursery
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈnɜr.sə.ri/
- She decided to enroll her son in a local nursery so he could make friends before starting school.
- nursery school
- children at nursery
- day nursery
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Watch on YouTubeMy husband and our best friend Daisy have been in a friend group since nursery pre-K school.
- My husband and our best friend Daisy have been in a friend group since nursery pre-K school.
- And when you do that, you can find stellar nurseries.
- Found this woman that molested like she was a nursery worker.
- We'd take her up there in Bishop's Stortford, Thorley Nursery.
- Yes, that would give you and then you could go meet new mums and maybe that would be a way to make some friends and like when school starts and nursery and stuff club.
- But you start going to nurseries and you start realize you discover this and unbelievable world.
- And when we looked for schools for my five and four year old, like not nursery as in primary schools, I didn't have a private education.
- He was in my daughter's nursery school class and was in her grade for seven years.
- It's all recess in nursery school, but they're drawing and they took the kids that really like to draw and they started giving them little gold stars on their drawings.
Examples
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THE MOTHER: It all started in nursery school, during Music Corner.
Fiction book (1997) -
Janice works at the nursery school.
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I, I spoke Spanish in nursery school and and I, my parents spoke English.
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But Jackson started doing full days at nursery twice a week.
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If these nursery schools are not funded as schools, they will close.
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The primary school students who had attended a nursery school used these skills more frequently.
Academic text (2011) -
Ever since nursery school, every single waking moment of every single day has been scheduled.
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Anyone who didn't get enough attention in nursery school can do that.
Fiction book (1999) -
And when we talk about the very first stages in a child's life, we look to children's centres, nursery schools.
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The children in the TD-MLU and TD-G groups were recruited from nursery schools in Padua, Italy.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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1.1
A class for young children to prepare for primary school
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1.3
A school for children ages three to five to learn and play
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1.9
Looking after children by someone other than their parents, often for pay
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2.1
Looking after children by people who are paid
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1.0
A place where staff look after young children during the day while their parents work
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1.6
A place where very young children learn before primary school
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5.7
A place where babies and young children are cared for during the day
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2.2
A place where adults look after young children during the day while their parents work
A school or class for children before they start primary school
Compounds
- UK
1
2.2
A place where adults look after young children during the day while their parents work
How Educational
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nursery for a childcare place is also linked to nurture and nurse, which mean 'to care for' or 'help grow'. So a nursery is a place where young children are cared for and helped to grow before school.