to support and encourage, as during the period of training or development; foster: to nurture promising musicians.
to bring up; train; educate.
noun
rearing, upbringing, training, education, or the like.
development: the nurture of young artists.
something that nourishes; nourishment; food.
Origin of nurture
1300–50; (noun) Middle English norture<Middle French, variant of nourriture<Late Latin nūtrītūra a nourishing, equivalent to Latin nūtrīt(us) (past participle of nūtrīre to feed, nourish) + -ūra-ure; (v.) derivative of the noun
As for the second question on nature versus nurture, this study can’t answer it.
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Instead of jumping into a seemingly endless academic scrum over “nature versus nurture,” they studied how children actually develop over years and decades.
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Oddly you nurture it, it is part of you, and inescapably part of your past, present, and future.
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Will asking for a barrel-aged Negroni help to nurture some European class?
Nationalism on Four Wheels|Clive Irving|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nature and nurture, genetics and family background all come into play.
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For me, it bred the question of what nature and nurture can really do to someone.
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The literary world he helped found and nurture, and whose landscape he bestrode like the colossus he was—that world is gone.
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The nurture of these years is as silent as that of the dewdrop upon the blade of grass, but it is as real.
The Unfolding Life|Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
A classification, then, according to nature and nurture is a classification according to essence and character.
Criminal Psychology|Hans Gross
A thrilling story of orphanage, illustrating the trials and temptations of the young, and the happy results of Christian nurture.
Brave Old Salt|Oliver Optic
Nurture, if it has been wise, has been the forerunner of culture.
The Ascent of the Soul|Amory H. Bradford
But you can't expect anything of them; they've had no nurture.'
Brother Copas|Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British Dictionary definitions for nurture
nurture
/ (ˈnɜːtʃə) /
noun
the act or process of promoting the development, etc, of a child
something that nourishes
biologythe environmental factors that partly determine the structure of an organismSee also nature (def. 12)
verb(tr)
to feed or support
to educate or train
Derived forms of nurture
nurturable, adjectivenurturer, noun
Word Origin for nurture
C14: from Old French norriture, from Latin nutrīre to nourish