Noun

(en noun)

A room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping.

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Please don't enter my bedroom without knocking.

Noun

(nurseries)

(lb) The act of nursing.

* 1606 , (William Shakespeare), King Lear , sc.1:

I loved her most, and thought to set my rest / On her kind nursery .

(lb) A place where nursing is carried on.

# A room or area in a household set apart for the care of children; specifically in European countries.

#*

But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.

# A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting; a plantation of young trees.

# The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

#*

Fair Padua, nursery of arts.

#* John Mitchell Mason, (1770-1829)

Christian families are the nurseries' of the church on earth, as she is the ' nursery of the church in heaven.

# A nursery school.

That which forms and educates.

(lb) That which is nursed.