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# nursery

«nursery» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place where young children are cared for while their…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a nursery, nurseries); adjective-like (nursery rhyme, nursery school)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A nursery is a place where young children are cared for while their parents work, before they start school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#m1)

2) A nursery is a child's bedroom for a baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#m2)

3) A nursery is a place where plants and trees are grown and sold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#m3)

4) (UK) Nursery (class or school) is the first class for children aged about three to four. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life younger brothers and sisters go to nursery; parents decorate a nursery for a new baby; gardeners buy plants at a plant nursery. Nursery rhymes like «Humpty Dumpty» are short songs for small children. Phrases: go to nursery, nursery school, nursery rhyme, plant nursery, nursery nurse.

### examples

- My little sister goes to nursery every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#x1)
- They painted the nursery yellow before the baby came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#x2)
- We bought apple trees from the nursery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#x3)
- «Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star» is a nursery rhyme. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#x4)
- The nursery has 24 children and 4 staff, so 6 children per adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#x5)
- I learned to paint at nursery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#x6)
- The nursery grows thousands of baby plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#x7)
- We now return to the nursery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/#x8)

### note

Countable noun. In the UK, «nursery» comes before «reception»; in the USA the similar class is «preschool» or «pre-K». Do not confuse with «nurse» (a health worker). In maths, children per adult = children ÷ adults.

### In the corpora

- [Rhyme makes poems easier to remember and fun to say, which is one reason nursery rhymes have lasted hundreds of years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/6/)
- [On Monday he stood on a chair at nursery and bellowed «FINISH HIM!» at a boy holding a toy dinosaur.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/6/)
- [The nursery teacher rang home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/7/)
- [Jake and Kieran have been enemies since nursery, and neither of them can remember why.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/19/)
- [The nursery rhyme Ring a ring o' roses was written down hundreds of years later and is probably not about the plague.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nursery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nursery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.