nursery

«nursery» in Mova's school dictionary: a place where young children are cared for while their… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a nursery, nurseries); adjective-like (nursery rhyme, nursery school)

meaning for a pupil

1) A nursery is a place where young children are cared for while their parents work, before they start school. tree →

2) A nursery is a child's bedroom for a baby. tree →

3) A nursery is a place where plants and trees are grown and sold. tree →

4) (UK) Nursery (class or school) is the first class for children aged about three to four. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life younger brothers and sisters go to nursery; parents decorate a nursery for a new baby; gardeners buy plants at a plant nursery. Nursery rhymes like «Humpty Dumpty» are short songs for small children. Phrases: go to nursery, nursery school, nursery rhyme, plant nursery, nursery nurse.

examples

• My little sister goes to nursery every morning. tree →
• They painted the nursery yellow before the baby came. tree →
• We bought apple trees from the nursery. tree →
• «Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star» is a nursery rhyme. tree →
• The nursery has 24 children and 4 staff, so 6 children per adult. tree →
• I learned to paint at nursery. tree →
• The nursery grows thousands of baby plants. tree →
• We now return to the nursery. tree →

note

Countable noun. In the UK, «nursery» comes before «reception»; in the USA the similar class is «preschool» or «pre-K». Do not confuse with «nurse» (a health worker). In maths, children per adult = children ÷ adults.

In the corpora

• Rhyme makes poems easier to remember and fun to say, which is one reason nursery rhymes have lasted hundreds of years.
• On Monday he stood on a chair at nursery and bellowed «FINISH HIM!» at a boy holding a toy dinosaur.
• The nursery teacher rang home.
• Jake and Kieran have been enemies since nursery, and neither of them can remember why.
• The nursery rhyme Ring a ring o' roses was written down hundreds of years later and is probably not about the plague.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nursery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.