Hothouse vs Nursery - What's the difference?
hothouse | nursery | Related terms |
A heated greenhouse.
(figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged; a hotbed.
(obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
* 1604 , , II. i. 64:
A heated room for drying greenware.
(of a child) To provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs
(lb) The act of nursing.
* 1606 , (William Shakespeare), King Lear , sc.1:
(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.
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# 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.
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#* John Mitchell Mason, (1770-1829)
# A nursery school.
That which forms and educates.
(lb) That which is nursed.
Hothouse is a related term of nursery.
As nouns the difference between hothouse and nursery
is that hothouse is a heated greenhouse while nursery is (lb) the act of nursing.As a verb hothouse
is (of a child) to provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.hothouse
English
Noun
(en noun)- and now she professes a / hot-house , which I think is a very ill house too.
- (Ben Jonson)
Verb
(en-verb)nursery
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(nurseries)- I loved her most, and thought to set my rest / On her kind nursery .
- 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.
- Fair Padua, nursery of arts.
- Christian families are the nurseries' of the church on earth, as she is the ' nursery of the church in heaven.
