Synonym: baby's room, glasshouse, greenhouse. Similar words: nurse, purse, course, of course, recourse, discourse, by yourself, in due course. Meaning: ['nɜrsrɪ /'nɜːsrɪ] n. 1. a child's room for a baby 2. a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions.
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61. I tried putting the boys in nursery school, but they screamed the place down.
62. Check with a nursery for the best partner for each hybrid.
63. As at any other self-respecting nursery, we always gathered ours up and burned them - but not these lads.
64. But at darkest midnight when all was silent in the house two great snakes came crawling into the nursery.
65. How nursery nurses and other students choose to use this knowledge is another matter entirely.
66. Paris children held hostage An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris.
67. It is a often a nursery for fish species that normally live in the separate worlds of freshwater rivers or the sea.
68. An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery.
69. There was the nursery, the school-room, and the drawing-room: there were three lots.
70. These take children only from the age of 3, and are staffed not by nursery nurses but by trained teachers.
71. The girls shared the night nursery, and the day nursery adjoining.
72. A petition signed by 2,500 people calling for better nursery provision was presented to County Hall in Durham.
73. After comforting the little girl and brushing away her tears, Laura had taken the children upstairs to the nursery.
74. Mr Fallon said the Tories were committed to encourage the creation of nursery places but not just through local authorities.
75. This nursery had been better preserved in its decay than her own bedroom.
76. Keith Mitchell, director of education,[www.Sentencedict.com] has recommended consideration be given to the new nursery units at the meeting.
77. By 1811 this nursery had over 30,000 square feet of glass.
78. This survived only in an underground way in folk song, nursery rhymes, children's counting verses, and so on.
79. He is always pleased to see his nursery teacher but is terrified that she will think he is a naughty boy.
80. Jaicks' son, Sam, 2, is one of 30 children who attend a nursery school in the church.
81. Joanne was 4 years old and attended a private nursery in a private housing estate within a large city.
82. He was all smiles helping nursery school toddlers splash out with water colours.
83. They need to be shown how to shape and extend the language of home, street, playgroup and nursery.
84. What they needed, they decided, was to set up a nursery themselves to gain a corporate reputation.
85. We put five brands of cracker through the toughest test of alla children's party at the Abercromby Day Nursery in Toxteth.
86. Labour planned to ensure a nursery place was available for every three and four-year-old whose parents wanted it.
87. One of the dolphin's main nursery areas is being devastated by construction of new sewage outfalls.
88. For research with young children the department has a specially equipped Day Nursery.
89. As the children have grown, the nursery has survived very well its transition into indestructible playroom.
90. Happily, placement in a large central nursery is being phased out for most babies.