单词 | nursery school |
释义 | > as lemmasnursery school nursery school n. an establishment for the care and education of preschool children; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > nursery school nursery school1835 day nursery1850 kindergarten1851 play school1869 kindy1910 preschool1925 kinder1955 1835 D. W. Webber Let. in I. Butler Eldest Brother (1973) i. ii. 29 It was..in the year 1765 that Lord Wellesley was brought to school... It was quite a nursery school... As a kind of Preparatory School it was in great Fashion. 1891 E. Michaelis & H. K. Moore tr. F. W. A. Froebel Lett. 30 He [sc. Froebel] thinks of christening it ‘Nursery School for Little Children’ or ‘Self-teaching Institution’. 1958 Economist 24 Oct. 303/1 His [sc. Gaitskell's] back-benchers still belong to the nursery school of political manœuvre. 1996 H. Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) 69 Story in papers about two-year-olds having to take tests to get into nursery school just made me jump out of skin. < as lemmas |
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