"nurture" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈnɜːɹ.t͡ʃəɹ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-nurture.wav Forms: nurtures [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)neh₂-}}, {{inh|en|enm|norture}} Middle English norture, {{der|en|fro|norriture}} Old French norriture, {{der|en|LL.|nutritura||nourishment}} Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), {{der|en|la|nutrire||to nourish}} Latin nutrire (“to nourish”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} nurture (countable and uncountable, plural nurtures)
  1. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: upbringing, raising, education, training Translations (act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training): τροφή (trophḗ) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), отгле́ждане (otgléždane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), výchova [feminine] (Czech), hoito (Finnish), kasvatus (Finnish), élever (French), éduquer (French), coidado [masculine] (Galician), Umsorgen [neuter] (German), Umhegen [neuter] (German), Päppeln [neuter] (German), γαλούχηση (galoúchisi) [feminine] (Greek), ανατροφή (anatrofí) [feminine] (Greek), oiliúint [feminine] (Irish), cura (Italian), educazione (Italian), addestramento (Italian), 育成 (ikusei) (Japanese), educare [feminine] (Romanian), creștere [feminine] (Romanian), cultivare (Romanian), briga [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), cuidado (Spanish), crianza (Spanish), ternura (Spanish), levantamiento (Spanish), desarollamiento (Spanish), magu (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-nurture-en-noun-IZQt-PWj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 16 31 12 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 19 22 28 23 8 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 14 30 31 18 7 Disambiguation of 'act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training': 96 3 2
  2. That which nourishes; food; diet. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (that which nourishes; food; diet): تنشئَة (Arabic), تَرْبِيَة (tarbiya) (Arabic), храна (hrana) [feminine] (Bulgarian), хранене (hranene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), výživa [feminine] (Czech), ravinto (Finnish), alimento [masculine] (Galician), τροφή (trofí) [feminine] (Greek), διατροφή (diatrofí) [feminine] (Greek), alimento (Italian), alimento (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-nurture-en-noun-AJP21ONu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 16 31 12 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 19 22 28 23 8 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 14 30 31 18 7 Disambiguation of 'that which nourishes; food; diet': 2 97 1
  3. The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature"). Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual): Erziehung [feminine] (German), Pflege [feminine] (German), Umwelteinflüsse [feminine] (German), cultura (Italian), criação (english: commonly used when talking about childrearing) [feminine] (Portuguese)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nouriture [obsolete], nutriture [obsolete] Derived forms: nature vs nurture

Verb

IPA: /ˈnɜːɹ.t͡ʃəɹ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-nurture.wav Forms: nurtures [present, singular, third-person], nurturing [participle, present], nurtured [participle, past], nurtured [past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)neh₂-}}, {{inh|en|enm|norture}} Middle English norture, {{der|en|fro|norriture}} Old French norriture, {{der|en|LL.|nutritura||nourishment}} Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), {{der|en|la|nutrire||to nourish}} Latin nutrire (“to nourish”) Head templates: {{en-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): храня (hranja) (Bulgarian), отхранвам (othranvam) (Bulgarian), hoitaa (Finnish), kasvattaa (Finnish), nourrir (French), criar (Galician), umsorgen (German), hegen und pflegen (German), τρέφω (tréfo) (Greek), διατρέφω (diatréfo) (Greek), nutrire (Italian), curare (Italian), 育成する (ikusei-suru) (Japanese), 养育 (yǎngyù) (Mandarin), taute (Maori), whāngai (Maori), ahu (Maori), poipoi (Maori), criar (Spanish), nutrir (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-nurture-en-verb-ptr356pt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 16 31 12 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 19 22 28 23 8 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 14 30 31 18 7 Disambiguation of 'to nourish or nurse': 98 2
  2. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something. Tags: broadly, figuratively Translations (figuratively, to encourage): favoriser (French), alimenter (French), fördern (German), voranbringen (German), incoraggiare (Italian), favorire (Italian), alimentare (Italian)
    Sense id: en-nurture-en-verb-CIdjx5b4 Disambiguation of 'figuratively, to encourage': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nouriture [obsolete], nutriture [obsolete], foster, feed, grow, nurture, promote, raise

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    },
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "otgléždane",
      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "výchova"
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      "word": "kasvatus"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "word": "élever"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
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      "word": "éduquer"
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "Päppeln"
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "code": "ga",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "oiliúint"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "word": "cura"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "word": "educazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "word": "addestramento"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ikusei",
      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "word": "育成"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "educare"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "creștere"
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      "code": "ro",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "briga"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
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      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "word": "ternura"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training",
      "word": "levantamiento"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
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      "word": "تنشئَة"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "fi",
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      "code": "gl",
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      "code": "el",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "it",
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    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
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      "word": "nurse"
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    {
      "word": "nursery"
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    {
      "word": "nurturance"
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    {
      "word": "nutrient"
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    {
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    {
      "word": "nutrition"
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          "text": "Look where he would, some heap of ruins afforded him rich promise of a working off; the whole town appeared to have been ploughed, and sown, and nurtured by most genial weather; and a goodly harvest was at hand.",
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        "To nourish or nurse."
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          "text": "2009, UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives), page 10, →ISBN\nThe relationships between universal norms and specific norms nurture the development of international law."
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        "obsolete"
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      "word": "nouriture"
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        "obsolete"
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      "word": "nutriture"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:nurture",
      "word": "foster"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nurture",
      "word": "feed"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nurture",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nurture",
      "word": "nurture"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nurture",
      "word": "promote"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "hranja",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "храня"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "othranvam",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "отхранвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "hoitaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "kasvattaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "nourrir"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "criar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "umsorgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "hegen und pflegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tréfo",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "τρέφω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "diatréfo",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "διατρέφω"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "nutrire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "curare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ikusei-suru",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "育成する"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǎngyù",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "养育"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "taute"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "whāngai"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "ahu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "poipoi"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "criar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to nourish or nurse",
      "word": "nutrir"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "figuratively, to encourage",
      "word": "favoriser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "figuratively, to encourage",
      "word": "alimenter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "figuratively, to encourage",
      "word": "fördern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "figuratively, to encourage",
      "word": "voranbringen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "figuratively, to encourage",
      "word": "incoraggiare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "figuratively, to encourage",
      "word": "favorire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "figuratively, to encourage",
      "word": "alimentare"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nurture"
}

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  "title": "nurture",
  "trace": ""
}

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