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# nurture

verb (nurture, nurtures, nurtured, nurturing); noun (nurture)

«nurture» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To nurture is to care for and feed a young thing so that it grows well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#m1)
2. Nurture is the care and training that helps a person grow up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#m2)

### In the lessons

a parent nurtures a child or young animal; a person is raised in comfort

### Examples

- The bird nurtures her chicks in the nest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#x1)
- They nurtured the little seed until it grew. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#x2)
- The girl was nurtured in a loving home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «nurture» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurture/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«nurture» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nurture.html) on Mova free.