crèche
English
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editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French crèche (“manger”), from Frankish *krippija, *kribbija, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ. Doublet of crib.
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editcrèche (plural crèches)
- A representation of the nativity scene.
- 2007, Clyde A. Bonar, Amen, I Say to You, page 666:
- At last, all was complete. The creche at Greccio looked like a new Bethlehem. The baby Jesus would be placed in the manger at midnight Mass.
- (UK, Ireland) A day nursery.
- They drop their two-year-old off at the crèche in the morning before they go to work.
- 2012, Roni Jay, The 10 Most Important Things You Can Do For Your Children:
- If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine.
- (historical) A hospital for orphaned infants; a foundling hospital.
- 1894, Amos Griswold Warner, American Charities: A Study in Philanthropy and Economics, page 272:
- One road leads to desertion of the child in a convenient hallway; another to the creche of a foundling hospital; a third, to a boarding home, good or indifferent, for the child.
- 1973, Wayne Dennis, Children of the Crèche, page 74:
- In line with this policy, a couple could adopt a Crèche foundling only if one or both of them were Roman Catholics.
- (collective, marine biology) A group of young who stay together for protection.
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edit- crèche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “crèche”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “crèche, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “crèche”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “crèche”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “crèche” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from French crèche, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French creche, cresche (“manger, feeding trough”), from Late Latin cripia (“feeding trough”), from Frankish *krippija, *kribbija (“crib”), from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(')rībh- (“basket, net”). Doublet of kribbe.
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editcrèche f (plural crèches)
- A day nursery for small children until age 3 in Belgium (Flanders) or age 4 in the Netherlands, when the children begin kleuterschool (nursery school/kindergarten) or, in the Netherlands, basisschool (primary school, which, in the Netherlands, begins at age 4 since August 1985, when kleuterschool was abolished and became a compulsory part of the primary school)
- Synonyms: kinderdagverblijf, (Flanders) kinderkribbe
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edit- → Papiamentu: krèsh
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French creche, cresche (“manger, feeding trough”), from Late Latin cripia (“feeding trough”), from Frankish *krippija, *kribbija (“crib”), from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(')rībh- (“basket, net”).
Cognate with Old High German krippa, kripja (“crib”) (German Krippe), Old English cribb, crybb (“crib”), Dutch kribbe (“crib”), Danish krybbe, Swedish krubba, Irish grib. More at crib
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editNoun
editcrèche f (plural crèches)
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editVerb
editcrèche
- inflection of crécher:
Further reading
edit- “crèche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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