NURSERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nursery mean? 

• NURSERY (noun)
  The noun NURSERY has 1 sense:

1. a child's room for a baby

  Familiarity information: NURSERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NURSERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A child's room for a baby

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baby's room; nursery

Hypernyms ("nursery" is a kind of...):

child's room (a bedroom for a child)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nursery"):

day care center; day nursery (a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work)

Derivation:

nurse (give suck to)

 Context examples 

"What, already up!" said he, as he entered the nursery.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and then of the female.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The star, CI Tau, is located about 500 light-years away in a highly-productive stellar ‘nursery’ region of the galaxy.

(Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form, University of Cambridge)

Oh! yes—she will have her own room, of course; the room she always has;—and there is the nursery for the children,—just as usual, you know.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Seagrasses are important nurseries for marine life and help protect coasts from storms and sea level rise.

(Microbe diversity is key to healthy coastal ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

Don't neglect husband for children, don't shut him out of the nursery, but teach him how to help in it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It’s clear now that these molecules form readily in stellar nurseries, providing insights into the chemical evolution of planetary systems, including our own.

(ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space, ESO)

This object is one of the closest stellar nurseries for both low and high-mass stars, at a distance of about 1350 light-years.

(A Tale of Three Stellar Cities, ESO)

They are a most unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one corner of the building.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astronomers study stellar nurseries such as NGC 7538 to better learn how stars come into being.

(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)