nursery

Meaning

Noun

• A place where nursing or the raising of children is carried on.
• A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
• Something which educates and nurtures.
• Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
• The act of nursing or rearing.

Origin

• . Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin nūtrīcia, from Latin nūtrīcius, from nūtriō, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse -ery.