nursery
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Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A room in a home where a baby or a very young child sleeps and plays.
Our youngest starts nursery three mornings a week in September.
The nursery closes at five, so someone must collect him.
She works in a nursery caring for toddlers and babies.
Common collocations: start nursery · a day nursery · nursery school · pick someone up from nursery · a nursery teacher
Part of: School and teaching, Buildings and places
Sense 2
- noun
- B2
A place where small children are looked after during the day while their parents work.
They painted the nursery pale yellow a month before the birth.
A soft lamp glows in the nursery all through the night.
He tiptoed out of the nursery once the baby fell asleep.
Common collocations: the baby's nursery · decorate the nursery · turn a room into a nursery · nursery furniture
Sense 3 · less common
- noun
- C1
A place where young plants and trees are grown, usually so that they can be sold.
The nursery grows young fruit trees under long plastic tunnels.
Staff at the nursery water the seedlings early every morning.
We ordered fifty hedge plants directly from a local nursery.
Common collocations: a plant nursery · a tree nursery · a garden nursery · order plants from a nursery
Part of: Plants, The garden, Shops and shopping
Forms
- plural
- nurseries