Synonyms for nurture
ˈnɜr tʃərnur·ture

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. nurture

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, protect, shelter, treasure, value

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. raising, rearing, nurturenoun

   the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

   Synonyms:
   raising, fostering, lift, rearing, breeding, bringing up, upbringing, fosterage, elevation

2. breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringingverb

   helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

   "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

   Synonyms:
   rearing, education, breeding, fostering, facts of life, gentility, upbringing, training, bringing up, elevation, procreation, lift, raising, fosterage, reproduction, genteelness

3. foster, nurtureverb

   help develop, help grow

   "nurture his talents"

   Synonyms:
   bring up, rear, sustain, foster, raise, nourish, parent, further

4. rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parentverb

   bring up

   "raise a family"; "bring up children"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, rise, arouse, put forward, leaven, set up, upgrade, boot, provoke, elevate, kick upstairs, recruit, upraise, enkindle, put up, heighten, stir, refer, elicit, advance, conjure, lift, fire, farm, cite, grow, bring up, conjure up, resurrect, levy, advert, promote, nourish, prove, erect, raise, name, call down, get up, produce, call forth, invoke, mention, reboot, evoke, rear, foster, parent, sustain, rise up, enhance

5. nourish, nurture, sustainverb

   provide with nourishment

   "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

   Synonyms:
   have, suffer, keep up, keep, support, hold up, hold, sustain, bring up, confirm, foster, nutrify, rear, aliment, get, corroborate, maintain, nourish, substantiate, affirm, raise, prolong, parent

Matched Categories

1. • Encourage
   • Supply
   • Upbringing

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nurturenoun

   Synonyms:
   nourishment, food, diet

2. nurturenoun

   Synonyms:
   training, education, instruction, discipline, tuition, schooling, breeding

3. nurtureverb

   Synonyms:
   feed, nourish

4. nurtureverb

   Synonyms:
   train, educate, instruct, school, rear, breed, discipline, bring up

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nurturenoun

   Synonyms:
   care, training, food, nourishment

2. nurtureverb

   Synonyms:
   feed, nourish, nurse, educate, train, school

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1. List of paraphrases for "nurture":

   cultivate, nurturing, cultivar, feed, foster, cultivating, nurtured, promote

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How to use nurture in a sentence?

1. Brian Deschanel:

   A parentless child, is an orphan growing wildlife without nurture, guidance, and insecured like a rootless dying flower in vase.

2. John Buttolph:

   I felt I had to take what was a handful of seed corn and plant it and nurture and grow another crop or cycle of Mrs. Winner’s.

3. Business Minister Shriti Vadera:

   I love the Britain that can nurture immigrants like me and make them its own.

4. Tulsi Gabbard:

   If we cannot work together through the regular order to keep the government funded and functioning then we should put our salaries to good use supporting causes that help people and nurture the communities who need it most, i intend to donate the salary I earn during the period that the government is shut down to charity.

5. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Happiness will bloom with fragrance and beauty if you plant the seeds of love with a deep driving desire in the garden of hope and nurture with tenderness, compassion, and care; if you are always eager to share.