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Manhood vs Nursery - What's the difference?

manhood | nursery |

As nouns the difference between manhood and nursery

is that manhood is the state of being man as a human being while nursery is the act of nursing.

manhood

English

Noun

  • The state of being man as a human being.
  • He feared the speedy decline of all manhood .
  • State of being a man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
  • A strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood .
  • The qualities ascribed to manliness; courage; bravery; resolve.
  • The male genitalia.
  • She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood .
  • Men, considered as a group.
  • Synonyms

    * (human being) mankind, humanity

    nursery

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    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.
  • Derived terms

    * nursery rhyme * nursery school * stellar nursery * workplace nursery * night nursery * day nursery