nursery


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Synonyms for nursery

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for nursery

a child's room for a baby

a building with glass walls and roof

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References in classic literature ?
How much more deceitful than her lover is the little nursery governess.
Love had put out his lights, and the little nursery governess walked in darkness.
"What you must do," said old Sea Catch, after he had heard his son's adventures, "is to grow up and be a big seal like your father, and have a nursery on the beach, and then they will leave you alone.
Yet as he pulled out against the gale he could see that even there had once been a seal nursery. And it was so in all the other islands that he visited.
A MINUTE afterwards Hunca Munca, his wife, put her head out, too; and when she saw that there was no one in the nursery, she ventured out on the oilcloth under the coal-box
The mice rushed back to their hole, and the dolls came into the nursery.
No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr.
Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and Mrs.
He was told that the prince had gone to the nursery.
"Devil take them!" he muttered, and after listening to the verbal instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his father's letter, he returned to the nursery.
Alexey Alexandrovitch was in the nursery in the morning, and leaving orders for the doctor to be sent for, he went to his office.
The presence of Princess Tverskaya was unpleasant to Alexey Alexandrovitch from the memories associated with her, and also because he disliked her, and he went straight to the nursery. In the day nursery Seryozha, leaning on the table with his legs on a chair, was drawing and chatting away merrily.
"Sarah, come and sleep with me in the nursery; I daren't for my life be alone with that poor child to-night: she might die; it's such a strange thing she should have that fit: I wonder if she saw anything.
Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth.
Mary was standing in the middle of the nursery when they opened the door a few minutes later.