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# nurture

«nurture» in Mova's school dictionary: **to care for and feed a young thing so that it grows well** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (nurture, nurtures, nurtured, nurturing); noun (nurture)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To nurture is to care for and feed a young thing so that it grows well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#m1)

2) Nurture is the care and training that helps a person grow up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a parent nurtures a child or young animal; a person is raised in comfort

### examples

- The bird nurtures her chicks in the nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#x1)
- They nurtured the little seed until it grew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#x2)
- The girl was nurtured in a loving home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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