nurture

An Eastern Grey Kangaroo nurtures her joey.

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”).

Pronunciation

Noun

nurture (plural nurtures)

  1. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
  2. That which nourishes; food; diet.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
  3. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
    • Milton
      A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.

Translations

act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training
that which nourishes; food; diet

Verb

nurture (third-person singular simple present nurtures, present participle nurturing, simple past and past participle nurtured)

  1. to nourish or nurse

Translations

to nourish or nurse

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