nurserynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈnɜː.sər.i/us/ˈnɝː.sɚ.i/nursery noun [ C ] (FOR CHILDREN)
B2 UK a place where young children and babies are taken care of while their parents are at work:
Does Jake go to a nursery or a childminder?
a room in a house where small children sleep and play
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- This type of nursery care may well be the best choice for your child.
- We've fitted up the spare room as a nursery.
- The office complex has an on-site nursery.
- The nursery has 30 babies on the books and 13 on the waiting list.
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Preschool
- childcare
- crèche
- day care
- day nursery
- kindergarten
- nursery school
- playgroup
- playschool
- preschool
- preschooler
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Parts of buildings: rooms
nursery noun [ C ] (FOR PLANTS)
a place where plants and trees are grown, especially for sale
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Farms & ranches
- collective farm
- croft
- dairy farm
- estate
- farm
- farmhouse
- farmland
- farmstead
- grange
- market garden
- plantation
- ranch
- sheep station
- smallholding
- spread
- station
- tea garden
- truck farm
- vertical farm
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Gardening - general words
nurseryadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈnɜː.sər.i/us/ˈnɝː.sɚ.i/relating to the teaching of children who are between the ages of two or three to five years old:
Do you think the state should provide free nursery education?
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Types of education
- adult education
- apprenticeship
- blended learning
- child-centred
- classroom
- coeducation
- consciousness-raising
- continuing education
- e-learning
- educational
- educative
- further education
- heuristic
- higher
- mainstream
- mixed-ability
- remedial
- scholarship
- secondary
- vocational
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