Synonyms for nursery
ˈnɜr sə rinurs·e·ry

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1. nursery

   Synonyms:
   seed-plot, seminary, plantation, school

   Antonyms:
   world, life, education, profession

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1. nursery, baby's roomnoun

   a child's room for a baby

   Synonyms:
   glasshouse, greenhouse, baby's room

2. greenhouse, nursery, glasshousenoun

   a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

   Synonyms:
   greenhouse, glasshouse, baby's room

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1. nurserynoun

   Synonyms:
   crèche (public nursery)

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1. List of paraphrases for "nursery":

   incubator, sowers, maternal, kindergarten, nurseries, incubators, crèche, pre-school, rearing, day-care, daycare, preschool, pre-primary, childcare, kindergartens, seedbed

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1. Benjamin Disraeli:

   Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

2. Gilbert Keith Chesterton:

   Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

3. Phyllis McGinley:

   Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

4. D. H. Lawrence:

   I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

5. David Sackler:

   I have three young kids, my 4-year-old came home from nursery school and asked,' Why are my friends telling me that our family's work is killing people ?'.