as in nursery
a school for children who are generally less than five years old
committed to the needs of its employees with young children, the insurance company has its own on-site day nursery
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Recent Examples of day nursery
It was already filled with a day nursery, sewing classes and Sunday school.
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Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
The organization’s beginning can be traced back to 1881, when a local women’s group named Western Association incorporated as Detroit Day Nursery and Kindergarten Association to provide a day nursery for working mothers.
—Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
The house, Hello Magazine reports, comes with five reception rooms, three main bedrooms, dressing rooms, a night and day nursery, and staff quarters.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2020
Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
The organization’s beginning can be traced back to 1881, when a local women’s group named Western Association incorporated as Detroit Day Nursery and Kindergarten Association to provide a day nursery for working mothers.
—Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
The house, Hello Magazine reports, comes with five reception rooms, three main bedrooms, dressing rooms, a night and day nursery, and staff quarters.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for day nursery
Noun
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Dyment was instrumental in fundraising for the construction of new buildings, including a state-of-the-art nursery and an event space, which was recently expanded to include an outdoor patio.—
Lou Ponsi,
Orange County Register,
11 Feb. 2025
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Each stay includes daily meals and snacks, childcare and postpartum classes, and access to a nursery and luxurious mothers’ lounge.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
11 Feb. 2025
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Murakami’s mother picked up his 6-year-old son, Yuta, at his nursery school after the earthquake.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
The Athletic,
14 Jan. 2025
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After graduating cum laude from Brooklyn College in the early 1940s, Chisholm taught as a nursery school teacher while pursuing her master’s degree in early childhood education at Columbia University.—
Dawn Sawyer,
CNN,
1 Dec. 2024
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Our grandmother taught at the preschool there for 17 years.—
The Editors of AD,
Architectural Digest,
7 Feb. 2025
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The shocking video, which was shared by ABC 7, shows an employee at the Homewood preschool dragging Grayson, the eldest of Forte’s two sons, toward a trash can by a wall and placing him inside of it.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Day nursery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/day%20nursery. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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