Definition of nursery

• n. - The act of nursing.
• n. - The place where nursing is carried on
• n. - The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
• n. - A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
• n. - The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
• n. - That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
• n. - That which is nursed.