Also spelled nussery
Meanings
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1
noun
A place where young children are looked after while their parents work.
They take their daughter to nursery every morning.
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2
noun
A bedroom in a house for a baby or young child.
They painted the nursery a soft shade of yellow.
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3
noun
A place where plants are grown and sold.
We bought several rose bushes at the garden nursery.
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Etymology
From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin nūtrīcia (“wet nurse”), from Latin nūtrīcius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from nūtriō (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nur…